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Question

I have to do a presentation on Imagism (a type of poetry).
The poets are Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell and William Carlos Williams.
The presentation should be as fun as possible and I really want to involve the whole class. Something like a game, and we can have food too. I just don't know how to incorporate things like music and food and games into a presentation about poetry. :P
I need some ideas. Please. Thanks.

Answer 1

Wow...tall order. The Imagists wrote direct descriptions of things to produce poetic vision in the everyday language. For example, in Pound's "In a Station of the Metro"

The Apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

I'm not sure music, food or games would add to the presentation of that kind of poetry...unless, the audience is educated...in which case you can recite a poem and give the crowd a multiple choice answer: is this poem by...then list four possible authors...make them write their answers down on a slip of paper, fold it, then when you say "time", everyone has to open up their answers so others can see...you then announce who it was and the losers sit down. The winners play the next round. You continue this until there is a single winner and they receive...something...a frisbee...a hat...something appropriate. The music playing in the background should be from the early 20th century to set the proper mood...maybe some dry WWI French niteclub songs? and you could even dress up in the style of the day. This way you can read lots of poems and even if your audience doesn't really know the answers, they get to guess (the beauty of multiple choice questions). Have fun with it.

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Editor, New Poets Press

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