Need some ideas for an English project

[afultz075]

In my English Honors class our teacher has this thing at the beginning of November called coffeehouse (we're supposed to have our selection chosen in about a week though) where we need to present a poem, tell something about the author and do an interpretation. This all has to be done from memory, no notecards. I absolutely suck at poetry and I have no idea of what would be good to pick and wouldn't be too complicated.

Our selection can be a poem or a monoloque from a movie/book as well. Does anyone have suggestions for something cool that wouldn't be too hard to remember?

[Thordic]

I memorized "To His Coy Mistress" in about a week, and its not a real short poem.

But you want a reccomendation?

Look up Alone, by Ambrose Bierce. Its only four lines, but has a lot of meaning behind it, and Bierce was an extremely interesting man.

Or you could find something else he wrote.

Hes one of my favorite poets so I just thought I'd bring it up.

[afultz075]

I looked up that poem, seems a but abstract, I had no clue what it meant. Like I said, I suck at interpteting poetry.

[gamarada717]

Look at some of Robert Frost's, you're bound to find something easy that you understand, because he wrote a bajillion poems.

[afultz075]

I'm looking at some of his stuff right now, hopefully i'll find something that suits my needs.