This is "Atlantis" performed live, I decided to another version of this to get see two different versions of the same poem. This one opened with a cough rather than the sound of music. Certain parts of this one was sped up when he was talking, I feel like there was more emotions behind this one. I love his facial expressions during certain jokes and his hand movements. He was able to pause with the jokes because the audience was laughing. However, I still like the other version better, it was kind of like reading a book and seeing it a certain way then watching the movie only to realize it was nothing like you pictured after all. I always enjoy that in Shane Koyczan poems they always involve body language, which makes everything easier to picture. In this version the poem no longer seems like a love poem to me it just seems like another one of his pieces of amazing work.
Words are powerful when written down, but even more so when they are spoken. Shane Koyczan, a native Canadian, is a spoken word poet. I will share with you his poems and what I take from them. Spoken word has been around for many centuries and usually focuses on the words themselves and the way they sound, the gestures that a person uses with the words, and facial expressions. It brings feelings back to words in a society where technology has muted them.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
"If Oprah Winfrey Farts in a Bathtub And No Bubbles Come To The Surface is There An Alternate Universe Where Gas is Cheap?"
This is "Atlantis" performed live, I decided to another version of this to get see two different versions of the same poem. This one opened with a cough rather than the sound of music. Certain parts of this one was sped up when he was talking, I feel like there was more emotions behind this one. I love his facial expressions during certain jokes and his hand movements. He was able to pause with the jokes because the audience was laughing. However, I still like the other version better, it was kind of like reading a book and seeing it a certain way then watching the movie only to realize it was nothing like you pictured after all. I always enjoy that in Shane Koyczan poems they always involve body language, which makes everything easier to picture. In this version the poem no longer seems like a love poem to me it just seems like another one of his pieces of amazing work.
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