READING-IN-METER CONTEST

You can find the text of the following poems on the web. Students can choose one poem and learn how to scan it correctly and how to read it with gusto and feeling. Being able to recite it from memory is going to give you 30 additional points. Theatrics in voice, motion, gestures and anything in between will be greatly valued!

Grading Scale & Criteria

Scansion: 40 points

Memorization: 30 points

Theatricality: 20 points

Creativity: 10 points

1. Catullus, poem 3 fletus passeris Lesbiae (Hendecasyllabic)

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/catullus.html

2. Catullus, poem 36, annales Volusi, cacata carta (Hendecasyllabic)

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/catullus.html

3. Catullus, poem 51, ille mi par esse deo uidetur (Sapphic strophe)

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/catullus.html

To hear Catullus 51 being read in meter, go here.

- u - u - || u u - u - u (3 times)

- u u - x (1 time)

For more information: http://home.earthlink.net/~hambrosia/Wesleyan/catmeter2.html.

4. Virgil, Aeneid, IV. 54-89 (Dactylic hexameter)

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/vergil/aen4.shtml

5. Sulpicia, Epistolae 1, tandem venit amor, qualem texisse pudori (Elegiac)

http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/sulpicia.html