Animal Farm Epic Poem

On Manor Farm, all animals thrived

horses, hens, goats and pigs, all dreamed of the day

Mr. Jones would die. A prize winning Boar, so old and wise

by the name of old major developed a plan to drive Jones

off the farm. Animalism took its course and the animals finally ruled,

but those pigs wanted to most.

Napoleon and Snowball the two smartest pigs

set out and told the animals they would be their leaders

and never quit. Yet

Snowball and Napoleon were always fighting, they disagreed on

almost anything.

"What to do, what to do..." Napoleon thought, and so he sent out

those vicious dogs who were only loyal to him, to go out and find snowball

and put an end to him. They chased him away in a flash,

and Snowball was never seen again.

Napoleon, Napoleon, oh greedy Napoleon told all the animals

that Snowball was the traitor, and he caused the trouble.

So the naive animals continued their well being never questioning the

poor missing pig. Until the day of rebellion, Napoleon would

have corrupted all the land, and animalism would never be seen again.

Poetry Out Loud

I watched Amanda Fernandez preform, Unknown Girl In The Maternity Ward by Anne Sexton. Her performance was jaw dropping and i could not believe how well she relayed an important story through poetry. While Amanda recited Anne Sexton's poem, it was as if she had gone through the experience her self. Her understanding of the poem was obvious and her dramatization was perfectly necessary. She appeared very comfortable on stage while she recited and had a loud strong voice to make the poem even stronger.

I believe the poem is about a mom, who puts her baby up for adoption. She doesn't know much about the father because he had left them. The woman cries because she really cares about her baby and she wants the best for it. When Amanda had a happy voice, suddenly she could change it to a sad crying voice.