Poetry Comment

I think that def-poetry is a great thing. It gives people the chance to speak what they have to say. In the first video with Maggie Estep I thought it was weired at first but then it started to change my mind. I thought that she was pretty funny and let there be a point that was put accross. This video was very strange but I think that it was entertaining to watch. Poetry is really cool and I think that most people dont realize this. It is in everything that we do if you think about it. For one thing rap has become the main source of most poetry. I do like having someone stand up in front of a group of people and express how they feel.

The Silence is Some Kind of Noise poetry was actually really interesting and I enjoyed listening to it because it kind of takes you back to the way things were a long time ago. I like it when they give you a sense of the past and you can remember the way things used to be. For some people this might be hard but this girl hit the nail on the head and spoke the truth. The next guy was really funny but he had a bad mouth on him. He spoke of the truth for some people and thats what I liked about him. It was very funny and I enjoyed this video a lot.

The next video was I Need to Write. This video was pretty good except for the fact that the guy talked about race to much and cops being mean to him and his brothas and sistas. I dont care to hear to much about that kind of thing but other than that I really enjoyed his enthusiasm. I tought that he did a good job explaining what he needed to write. The last video I thought was pretty good. It was very repetitive but it did the way his style was. I thought these videos were entertaining and I will watch some more based on these

Naira Has No Gender

This play was very interesting in the fact that it was not very interesting to me but it did have a catch to it. To start off I almost didn't make it because they ran out of seats about five minutes after I walked in. The only instruments that were used in this play were two drums. I will be honest in saying that the drums scared me throughtout the whole play. They were extremely loud and woke me up when I started to doze off. The stage was set with just four rectangular 7 by 5 walls behind all of the actors. I liked this one guy in the play who had a sense of humor throughout, he livened it up a little.

The play starts off by letting everyone know of the two people who wish to get married. It is mainly about getting naira which is known as money in nigeria. The two that wish to get together and get married are trying to negotiate the real world of power and money, while also striving to maintain a sense of traditional identity, while looking ahead toward the future that they and their children will inhabit. This play was not very realistic but rather a mix of natural, traditonal, and symbolic atmospheres. The couple that I have mentioned wants to resist the mercaenary culture that has ruined the dreams of this land. They cometo find out that between them no money or naira will ever get in their way.

Throughout the play we see that the mercenary class has been putting the country up for sale. The leader of the country seems to cheat people from what they need. He looks for deals that will help him and his family alone. His son gets the best education that is given in that country. In the end of this play shows the power of love and the commitment to social justice over the sterile claims of naira. This play overall had a great message to the people who dont see whats going on in other countries. This however isd not my kind of play, I would reccomend it however to classes who are learning of struggles in other countries.