Blog 8:

For this week’s post, I chose the reading from “T’was the Night Before Christmas.” The poem has rhythm throughout while telling a story. When you read it out loud you tend to say it with emotion. You hear the flow and the rhythm of the words as you read it. In this poem, there are sentence fragments it helps to make it sound good, because it communicates the key components of the poem. The sound and rhythm will have you saying it in the mood you are in. Try saying the first line out loud right now…..How did you say it? Did you just read the words or did you go with the rhythm and hear the emotion in your voice? The words throughout the poem are descriptive and let you know what is happening.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro’ the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar plums danc’d in their heads, And Mama in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap-When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.