Reflecting on poems

From this project I learned that spoken word poetry comes from a wide variety of places. There are many different types of it and it is used to express many different things. Some spoken word poetry sounds like rap, others send a message, and there are some that describe times or places in someone's life. I can apply this to other things in public speaking because it changed the way that I perform. Since spoken word poetry is very dramatic it makes it deeper and more emotional. Because of this, I will be able to put more emotion into all of my other types of public speaking. I think that Caroline's was very effective. I think this because she used good hand motions and she had good diction. She also put a lot of emotion into her poem and it seemed really natural. It was nice to watch the presentations that were well memorized and presented with emotion and had good music. I think the music really killed some of the poems, but in some cases the music worked really well. I personally think that I only did a few things well. I had good diction and I spoke loud enough and I really thought my music went well with it. But I was unable to memorize it and because of this I had to read off of the iPad. Since I was reading off the iPad i wasn't able to do hand motions or make eye contact. Those were the most difficult things for me. This time I wasn't as shy and nervous as I was the first time. I think that since I'm getting more use to the class I'm opening up more. So that's something I've improved on. I just need to work on memorization and emotion I think.