Special Chapter Meeting: 24th November 2009

Our special guest, Dr. Elizabeth Sachs, gave us an astounding lesson on how to integrate poetry into our project speeches~!

Tips to takeaway from our little poetry workshop:

- A delighful way to integrate poetry into a speech is when giving a light hearted after dinner speech/toast.

- There is rhythm in a poem- pentameters (iambic and quadrameter). This leads to the importance of vocal variety (P6).

- Advice (quoted from the handout):

• Familiarize yourself with the poem
• Pay particular attention to lineation (end stops and enjambment)
• Hear the meter, style must blend well
• Excerpt the poem
• Sandwich the poem, using its closure to best effect
• Principally present tense for speaking of the poem

- Notable poets to get quotations from:

• William Shakespeare (The Bard)
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Emily Dickinson
• Robert Frost [I'm not beng bias, but he's a personal favourite of mine. =)]

Word of the evening: Envisage (To foresee/ To visualize)

Prepared Speeches:

Project 2 (Organise your speech- Be a Planeteer): Chng Zhen Cong

Project 9 (Persuade with power- There is more to a story): Devesh Nair

Project 9 (Persuade with power- I need a meal)- Perlin Chan

Winners for the evening

Best Project Speech: Perlin Chan

Best Table Topic speaker: Swee Kiat

Best Evaluator: N.A

And to leave all of you with a delightful poem by E.E Cummings (His style is not like normal poets, so it is as how you see it. They are not typos)

The sky was

the
sky
was
can dy lu
minous
edible
spry
pinks shy
lemons
greens coo l choc
olate
s.
un der,
a lo
co
mo
tive s pout
ing
vi
o
lets