Of Poetry

I was just given an assignment at school in which we have to write a poem compiling one line or more from four poems plus some of our own. The main topic for this term was poetry through the ages going from Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian to Modernist. Personally I am very interested in this topic and have already started a collection of poets and poetry to chose from, as well as ideas for a theme.

The point of this is not to use plagiarism or to try recreate a poem, but to pay homage to poets past and present. I like horror, gore and gothic poetry but I'm not sure if my class would agree since it is an oral presentation. We are allowed to use the lyrics from a song as a poem as well and have to use multi modal (powerpoint, video, music) elements, gestures, costuming, etc to dramatize the saying of the poem. I'm not much of an actor but I want to give this my best shot since it is an object of my interests. The poets have to have published some of their works to be part of this and I want to fully reference them so as to make their works more well known because some of them are absolutely brilliant.

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Some poets and poems that I have thought about so far are:
Kill Natalie
Emilie Autumn
Edgar Allen Poe
The Apparition by John Donne
The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling