I Too Am America Response

The first link, did a very good job of bringing the poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow” to life and giving us a visual description. This poem is very short. There are only 8 lines and each line only has a few words in it. In the performance, this group was able to go into greater detail and description through the use of the narrator. When I originally read the poem, I was very confused by it. The poem didn’t give a lot of information overall, and I could barely understand the meaning of it because of the lack of dialogue. When I saw this group perform, I was able to comprehend the message of the poem a lot easier and came away more satisfied than when I read the poem. Personally, I felt the performer and the narrator worked well by allowing the narrator to give a background description of what the performer was doing. 

The second link did a great job of expressing emotion and a change of feeling, as expressed in the original poem. “I Too Am America” is a poem that is a great example of change within a person and their personality. In the beginning, the author talks about how he is not allowed to eat at the table with the guests, but by the end of the poem, the author decided to stand up for himself and says that nobody will tell him otherwise, he wants to sit at the table and eat with their guests. In the performance, this group did a great job of expressing that and showing how the author made such a change within this poem, and how the other people within the story reacted to his change. Overall, this group hit the nail right on the head with bringing this poem to the stage.

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