Day In The Trenches: Poem Analysis

Upon the class ' return on Tuesday after a three day weekend, the highly anticipated showing of war poem reenactments commenced. The week before, each group was assigned a poem to recite and act out. Originally, we were prompted to present the day after it was assigned, but due to meeting with counselors about the rest of our (Clark) future, it was postponed to Tuesday. In short, we had four whole days to prepare. In theory, but not so much in practice.

First up was the "Soldier," performed by two out of the three groups assigned to it. The third group, unfortunately, had an absent member with no understudy therefore being rescheduled the day after. The dissatisfaction of the rescheduled group— Sammy, Patricia, Damian, Hakob, Rita, and Ani— was made evident by their smug look at the performing groups. …show more content…
One of the groups performing "Carry On"— Nick, Mathew, Derick, and Vachik— was especially popular, their offbeat but expressive reading was accompanied by a dance routine reminiscent to the nineties boy band group, NSYNC. Or was it Backstreet Boys? Regardless, their performance ended with a bang... Nick falling behind a computer cart. Bye bye bye that landing I suppose. (Disclaimer: No student was hurt in the making of this class