Soo... this blog post is going to have a ton of links on it. I love links.
I found a poem that we listend to last year in PATH, One Boy Told Me by Naiomi Shihab Nye (the lady who wrote Habibi- her poems are much better than her novels) Click here to watch. My favourite quote is either "Just think! No one has ever seen inside this peanut before!" or "Grown-ups keep their legs on the ground when they swing...I hate that."
Then I went to Billy Collins, because, with a name like that, he has to be funny. His poem (The Lanyard) started out kinda boring, especially since he has such a monotonos voice, but then it became a good source of humor as the poem progressed. This quote, which is one of my favourites from the piece, was very amusing with the blah blah blah air that he was giving off. "Here are thousands of meals, she said, and here is clothing and a good education. And here is your lanyard, I replied, which I made with a little help from a counselor." Click here to watch. I remember when I went to Camp Geneva (from like kindergarten to sixth grade- the pre-Blue Lake era) the one skill every girl had to have is to know how to weave a lanyard, and you should have known at least one person who could start and finish a lanyard for you. I rarely finished mine because I got too bored weaving. Not going to be one of my career choices.
'On a more serious note, I found a poem that I didn't like as much but that was also a more serious poem. And, as I was looking through some of the poetry, I found that this is my favourite of the more serious poems. But I still like funny peoms more. And the most amusing line in this poem was "And although we have travelled far we must not forget that primal lesson on patience, courage, forbearance; on how to love squid despite squid..." Click here to watch Marilyn Chin's The Floral Apron.
In the animated department, I do think I prefer the nonanimated versions because you can see the poets expression and you aren't more focused on the pictures than the words. I was sad because none of the peoms mentioned above were in the animated archives, but I did find one I liked. It's called New York, by Valzhyna Mort, a native of Belarus. My favourite quote: "And things you won't tell to a priest, you reveal to a cab driver," I liked this poem because it encompases so much of what we know New York to be, the good and the bad. Click here to watch.
So, now for this week's quote...firstly, there was a small glitch in my quote from last week...I said the wrong Orlando Bloom movie. Will Turner actually says "No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it," in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. (I wouldn't have realized if we hadn't watched it over the weekend) In the meantime, I had to come up with a really good one to beat out all those amazing ones above, so here it is, in honour of it being almost six years ince the movie was released (May 19, 2005).
"You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. You were to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness!" -Obi-Wan Kenobi
And to accompany that line, click here to hear an awesome song from the soundtrack, whcich I am currently listening to like my life depends on it.
Try listening to the song while reading the line. And remember to listen to the WHOLE song, and may the Force be with you. Always.
-Jenni
No comments:
Post a Comment