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hockeychick8792
04-20-2007, 10:14 PM
:D I am on a Forensics team. I do the poetry event. I have 6-10 minutes to read poems with feeling and emotion. Atleast enough emotion to have me place:lol: ! Well, a new season will be starting soon, and I need a new piece. So, if there are any poems you know (LONG OR SHORT) tell me. Please and Thank You.

I never placed before in forensics. I am okay, but I need a piece that suits me. So tell me any poem that you think will be good. THANKS AGAIN!!!:D
andave_ya
04-20-2007, 10:37 PM
Beowulf maybe? It's an epic and written from a third-person (I think that's right, I always get mixed up) perspective but it can be read with a great deal of feeling.
hockeychick8792
04-20-2007, 10:57 PM
Thanks! I'll check it out and get back to you!
andave_ya
04-20-2007, 11:27 PM
I hope it works!
hockeychick8792
04-29-2007, 12:53 PM
I there any othr Ideas!?!?
cuppajoe_9
04-29-2007, 01:20 PM
"Jabberwocky" (http://www.online-literature.com/carroll/336/) by Lewis Caroll would be quite entertaining if read in one's best Shakespearian voice.
kilted exile
04-29-2007, 02:21 PM
Tam O' Shanter is always good when read correctly
hockeychick8792
05-01-2007, 09:35 AM
Do any of you think 'the raven' by Edger Allen Poe would be good?
hockeychick8792
09-21-2007, 01:28 PM
forensics in starting back up so I need to know ifanybody else knows of a good poem short or long that I can present

Ps thanks all for the poems I really like the Jaberwocky on and beowulf
Hyacinth42
09-21-2007, 11:09 PM
From what I've heard from my forensics friends, is that everybody does the raven, everybody does the jabberwocky, and that it's better to get a random/odd/not well known poem (that's still good) instead (although, I love both the jabberwocky and the raven).

With that in mind, I'm going to give you some totally unrandom poems that I like/have heard of, just because I like/have heard of them ;). I've "heard" that "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Tennyson is good. I love Eldorado by Poe (although it's rather short). Erm, I like Blake's "The Tyger".

Umm, I'm sorry, but I'm not a poetry expert, so I can't think of any random poems (of course, if they were truely random, that would be the point ;) )
quasimodo1
09-24-2007, 08:22 PM
Perhaps this poem is too long for your purpose but Poe's "Ulalume" would be a great recital. posting #402 http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2763&page=27&highlight=Ulalume