50 Great Poems to Read & Perform Out Loud: For Students, Actors and Lovers of Reading Poetry

Here are fifty of the world's best poems to read out loud. These great poems were written by such poets as Shelly and Poe, Tennyson and Coleridge, Blake and Millay, Lear and Carroll and many more.Poets are inventors and engineers of words. Using allusions, imagery and connotations that are already inside the reader's mind, a poet creates a new adventure of unexpected emotions, laughter, images, ideas or new perspectives - and often a combination of all of these. And that is what you will find here.Here are poems that are as important today as the day they were written.When this poetry is read aloud even greater meanings are revealed, through rhythms and rhymes that challenge the tongue and delight the mind. Your mind and the audience that hears them will find new meanings and understandings relevant to your life and their lives.There are poems here for actors doing an audition, for lovers seeking romance, for the shy to appear witty and for anyone who wishes a richer understanding of