Try to find the recorded version of Bob Dylan’s “Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.” (It appears on the album/CD “Blood on the Tracks; might be on YouTube).
Read Ernest Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat.”
Watch the video of Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billy Joe.”
Discuss the three poems in terms of Scene. How does the story begin? How does the writer make use of minor characters? What details does the writer use to make the scenes come to life? What does the author leave out for the reader to infer? How does a performance of a poem/story differ from a reading of it?
