Sarah Key's The Importance Of Proofreading

Another of his best known poems is “The Importance of Proofreading”. Here, using bad English he tells a story about being such a bad speller when he was a child. He says that his teacher used to tell him that he won’t get in any good college. So, he decided to buy a speller. In this poem he wants to point out how important the proofreading is. The proofreading helps you to check that you have included everything you wanted to say in any piece of writing. Also, it gives you a chance to review your work and add anything you might missed out. It can help you gain extra marks in your exams and could even make the difference between and entire grade. Isn’t that important? Also, he points out that if you are a good speller, no one will ever laugh at you, as someone used to laugh at him when he was a child.
Another important slam poet who also took part in the Def Poetry Jam is Sarah Key with her poem HANDS. Her poem is about how important hands are and how they show love. What we do with them and what we can’t do without them. She says:” Hands learn more than minds do. Hands learn how to hold other hands. How to grip pencils and mould poetry. How to tickle pianos, and dribble a basketball and grip the handles of a bicycle. How to hold old people and …show more content…
This kind of poetry is so exciting because it can be both serious and silly, in equal measure. The goal of every poet is to make the listener see, smell, feel and maybe even taste what he is telling through the poem. Spoken word poetry can touch the human soul regardless of age, gender, race and religion- it transcends physical traits and connects people on an emotional level. So, in the future if someone wants to do their own spoken word poetry they should do that, because someone from the audience needs to know what other have to