The Epic of Gilgamesh; My Name is Red; The Odyssey: The Bacchae; The Bhagavad Gita; The Tale of Genji; Journey to the West; Popol Vuh; Candide; Things Fall Apart; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The God of Small Things; The Thousand and One Nights.
Watch these National Final recitations and evaluate the strengths (and weaknesses!) of each, according to Poetry Out Loud evaluation criteria. Discuss the merits of these performances, which ones the you like best and why and how the poems are different when read versus recited. Start with the one below and then click on the link for more and for explanations!
