Spoken Word Poetry

POEM 1

1. Shane Koyczan

2.  To This Day

3. Shane Koyczan's poem "To This Day" is about bullying. He doesn't just tell the audience about his own battles, but also the battles the people around him had to fight and their lasting effects. as the poem end he proudly declared "we made it," assuring others they can too.

4. Koyczan has weaved many ballads into one creating the master piece "To This Day". Little stories exaggerating that too many people have to suffer from bullying. There was a innocent girl that has "a birthmark that takes up a little less than half of her face" and a boy who "had a personality made up of tests and pills" who get bullied for things that are out of their control. They are suffering the consequences of someone else's mistake. He also used many metaphors to express the pain that they suffered through to help the audience understand better.

5. My favorite line in this was "she's raising two kids whose definition of beauty begins with the word mom because they see her heart before they see her skin." Sometimes children end up on top because of their innocence. It shows that no matter what she looks like, this woman is a great person who is raising two kids that will hopefully be different as they won't see the world same as others. The way Shane Koyczan worded it was also very powerful.


POEM 2

1. Sarah Kay

2. B (If I Should Have A Daughter...)

3. B, Sarah Kay refers to herself as Point B for her daughter, so "she could find her way back to [Sarah]." This is poem where Kay expresses what she would do if she should have a daughter. It consists of Sarah describing how she's going to prepare her daughter to face the world, and if that fails then how she is going to be there for her daughter.

4. Sarah Kay used many poetic terms that made this poem clever but still portrayed her feelings. I really enjoyed how some of the lines had a rhyme scheme, but not all. If all the lines rhymed I think it wouldn't sound so real and meaningful. The meter in the song also made it flow alot more flawlessly.

5. "Getting the wind knocked out of you, is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air" is my favourite line in "B". It makes you realize that if bad situations didn't occur in life, then you wouldn't appreciate the good ones. It makes the good times sweeter.


POEM 3

1. Marshall Davis Jones

2. Touchscreen

3. Jones through this poem expresses his concern about the world becoming to dependant on technology to do everything for us.

4. As the poem progresses, Jones uses a variety of poetic techniques to construct his opinion including alliteration, repetition, and internal rhymes. The main technique that I noticed was that he used hyperbole. Humans are not the way that he describes but are well on the road to becoming similar. The way Jones performed "Touchscreen" made the biggest change. Acting like a robot addicted to all things digital really exaggerated his point.

5. One of my favourite lines in this poem was "maybe one day...out technology [will be] advanced enough to make us human again." It plants the seed in your mind and makes you think if we aren't able to fix this problem ourselves, is there going to be a break through of technology that can do it for us? People rely so much on technonlgy that they are becoming detached and some have realized that they don't want to live this way.