My Poem

The First day in class that we started browsing poems a while ago, I felt extremely overwhelmed with all the different and interesting choices. I was having a hard time feeling a poem that felt said "Molly." I wanted a poem that I could somehow connect with on a mental level. A day or two later, I looked through some on the list but couldn’t find the right one, so I went upstairs to find my little sister at the TV frustrated because she didn’t know how to start the movie she wanted to watch. To my wonderful surprise I saw she wanted to watch Alice in Wonderland. The very worn VCR case was clutched in her hand. Later, when I went back to sitting and staring at a bunch of poems in the list again, I clicked on one labeled "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky." After reading through it once I knew my poem had been found.

"A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" was written by Lewis Carroll! This is the same genius who wrote Alice in wonderland. It tells of three children on a sunny summer day listening to the tales of Alice. This relates to my life in a big way because I am the oldest of two other siblings, Adam is 12 and Lucy is 7. As I read through line by line into this poem it made me think of lazy summer days lying in the grass and guessing what the clouds looked like. This often ended with the bossy older sister saying only her ideas were right (yet that can be told in another story). I feel like this poem was written just for me, so in other words it says "Molly."

When I recite the poem I will try to put as muc life into it as posible to convey to the listeners the images I see in my head when I say it. My expression will be used to bring them back with me to those sunny summer days where being lazy is the work to be done, and imaginary animals can be seen when you close your eyes while listening to a story. I will also try to send a nostalgic feel, as if looking back makes them feel really happy and longing for those days. My gestures and facial expression will be limited but through them I will try to embellish the emotion I am trying to create even more.