Slam Poetry

 This is the last main task for our English subject, well at least the last main task that I have completed. The task relates into Slam Poetry, a poetry that is verbally presented, often in competitions involves the participation of the audience, with clapping and oral cheering. It is about the performance and writing of the cerate topic that they are to do or have done. The task required us to choose--from a selection--the video that we most like and explain why it is that we have done so. Giving supporting evidences for the answer that we have given. 

The video that I have chosen:

The topic of the poem that the poet "Ben Stroke" has done is about New Zealand, 'Place to be' as the title suggest. What I have taken interest in this piece of text is how, not only that he suggest and state the good and positive that we have in New Zealand, he takes into consideration what we were before. The history, the culture one of the phrases from the poem states, "fear the fire the first men stole from the sun", which can be traced from the story of Maui. The poem also states the ingenuity of the people of NZ by saying "we patch our broken hearts up with duck tape and number eight wire".  With the mixture of culture, tradition and how we are in New Zealand the title reflects on what we feel, it is indeed a "Place to be".