1. LISTEN AND READ THE TEXT , THEN GIVE IT A HEADLINE THE MACARENA is a dance song from Spain, but you don’t need to be Spanish to dance the Macarena. The world record for the largest Macarena dance is for 2,226 teachers and students from the south-west of England. Colombian dancer Alberto ‘Beto’ Pérez is the creator of Zumba – a dance fitness programme. It now keeps people fit and happy all over the world. It doesn’t feel like exercise as it’s good fun. BOLLYWOOD DANCE is famous around the world because of the popularity of Indian Bollywood films. It is a mixture of belly dancing and Indian folk. In Bollywood dance, you don’t just dance, you also sing. There’s one non-Indian Bollywood dancer, of course, Shakira. THE HAKA is a Maori dance from New Zealand that is famous round the world. The dance is a traditional Maori war dance, which the All Blacks Rugby team perform before the match. Most people don’t do the dance – they watch

“tell me o swan, your ancient tale” by kabir “the swan” by rilke “spanish dancer” by rilke “your laughter” by pablo neruda “birthplace” by shaffarzadeh “it’s this way” by nazim hikmet “counting small-boned bodies” by robert bly choose two poems that you would like to write about. analyze each poem. study the perspective, or point of view, of the speaker in each of the two poems that you select for this assignment. consider these questions: who is the speaker in each of these poems? what is the speaker’s tone? is there a conflict? is there a message? what does each of the poems have in common? what is different about each of the poems? which literary devices are used in the poems? are these literary devices found in both of the poems? what does the speaker hope to achieve in each of the poems? how are these achievements/goals been met? directions: using the two poems of your choosing, write a clear, concise, two hundred and fifty word essay that compares and contrasts the two poems. make sure you include at least two of the following to support your thesis: tone, point of view, literary devices, and meter.