Poetry Outloud

        Nightmare Flight, by Paul Curtis is a poem that I can relate to on a very deep level.  His poem discusses death, and the reaction from society to it.  Death is a frightening thing to the individual, of course becuase it is death.  But to society the death of another is more of a nuisance, or a reminder that everyone will go one way or another.  Literally, Curtise's poem is correct, in saying the masks on planes are only their to muffle the screams, the oxygen is to calm the people down and is merely for fighting panic.  Figuratively, the poem refers to society's view of death.  Which is the nuisance, hence Curtis's line saying: "They're only their to muffle the screams."
     I intend to convery the poem, by begining in a leaning stance with my head down.  From their I willl say my first line, than I willl look up and say my next line, then the third, then I will say half of the fourth, pause, and say the rest.  I will finish with my heaad down again.  I also intend to speak quietly to potray the frightening unknown factor of death.  I will speed my speech up in the middle of the poem, but finish sowly.  As if im cotemplating what I am saying.  I will use little gestures to symbolize the low energy of the poem and death.  Also the depresssion the author is trying to get across in his poem, a kind of hopeless death.