"AP POETRY & ART SESSION"

By Kamil Berríos

Seniors from the AP Literature & Composition course selected poems from the syllabus. A gratifying experience witnessed, for poetry may not be life, but life is certainly poetry.

Objective: Connect poetry to art.

A soothing atmosphere is perceived when all performed “highest in the room.” From 1794 to 1968, 13 poems from different generations were analyzed in creativity to achieve the ultimate goal: literature appreciation -which propels sensibility and embraces vulnerability.

Thank you for the gift of your presence.

“Poets or soldiers -we’ll never know- This one dedicated to Seniors 2024.”

THE CAST

Miguel Marina in William Blake’s “A Poison Tree” (1794)

Caleb Falú in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” (1818)

Carlos Marqués in Elizabeth Browning’s “I Think of Thee” (1850)

Pablo De Jesús in Walt Whitman’s “Oh Captain! My Captain!” (1865)

Gustavo San Miguel in “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold (1867)

Nicolás Dorón in Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider” (1868)

Amaury Velasco in A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” (1896)

Mariano Lavergne in Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” (1920)

Gustavo Hernández in Langston Hughes’s “Mother to a Son” (1922)

José Canto in Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” (1963)

Javier Jiménez in Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” (1965)

Ezequiel Ramírez in Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” (1966)

Noa Calderón in Charles Bukowski’s “A Challenge to the Dark” (1968)