The Odyssey

[LT]

I always knew I would use this song for a project... and what do you know? In English, a few friends and I are doing a project on poetic periods... In which we picked Homeric/Biblical... So we had to pick two poets and one poem... We pick Homer and a Chinese guy I can't remember and the Odyssey is our poem (though I have to pick passages out of the book as my job in this project is poem analogy and props)

And we'll be playing a snippet in the Odyssey that we have not yet figured out on putting on, which section do you feel we should play for the class? We have until monday but this is a 25 minutes presentation and we can't blow 24 on a song, sadly

Thanks.

 

[Dobbit]

I say go for the intro, it seems the most appropriate. It seems like a summary of the story as well, from the all the different parts of it.

 

[Androz]

champion of ithaca

 

[SilentRealm]

why not blow 24 mins of a 25 min presentation on the song? that right there does your speech for you..

 

[dargormudshark]

why not blow 24 mins of a 25 min presentation on the song? that right there does your speech for you..

I agree with that idea, put as much Symphony X in there as possible. But if I could pick one, Champion of Ithica

 

[The Metal Chick]

amen to champion of ithica, best part ever.

 

[Liquid Shadow]

You could also mention how it's a big triumphant-sounding part...like someone just won the Superbowl or something...and explain how that works perfectly with the part of the story that specific section is about.

 

[Beelzebub]

See if you can take up an entire class day by playing the whole song and doing a presentation. Your classmates will thank you for it.

 

[MorphineChild205]

Just play the full song, and use your remaining 51 seconds to deliver a short but effective speech.

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

Champion of Ithaca - the lyrics ("So this is home...") really tell a lot about the story. Mentioning Minerva, how pissed Odysseus was, the whole shooting arrows thing. Sorry if I just managed to make the Odyssey sound stupid. I'm tired.

 

[Beelzebub]

Technically, it should be Athena, not Minerva. But that's just me being anal.

 

[LT]

We've actually decided to play it in the background while we talk and than if we finish before the song we'll just let the song finish.... that way people will be paying more attention to the music than me

 

[Beelzebub]

That's cool because you'll end up on the Champion of Ithaca part anyway. Good thinking.

 

[unknown]

Just play the full song, and use your remaining 51 seconds to deliver a short but effective speech.

'And that's what makes The Odyssey so great"

 

[symphonyx]

Yup.....Some of them are right.....you should play Champion of Ithaca. But,do not begin with the singing part ( this is home...), begin with the guitar part.

 

[LT]

Yup.....Some of them are right.....you should play Champion of Ithaca. But,do not begin with the singing part ( this is home...), begin with the guitar part.

Already decided to play the whole thing...

So my group is done. We have about 3 minutes explaining the Homeric/Biblical period, we have a biography on Lao Tzu and Homer and a poetic analysis of the Odyssey.

And because we don't have a poem, but a 307 page book I got to read the whole thing and pull out any poetic parts I wanted so we have about 10 minutes of poetic analysis alone... we're so nailing this

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

Awesome! You have to let us know what the class and teacher think man.

 

[urinalcakemix]

yea, thats awesome. I think I blew a chance to play the Odyssey in my class, but I'll manage.


Good luck, make sure you whore the shit out of SX, and that the music is louder than your words, so people can focus in on the music better... =)

 

[LT]

yea, thats awesome. I think I blew a chance to play the Odyssey in my class, but I'll manage.


Good luck, make sure you whore the shit out of SX, and that the music is louder than your words, so people can focus in on the music better... =)

Haha, we were thinking about doing that, but we're confident in what we're doing... We have it done and we do it second period tomorrow morning... Seeing as I am the last talker, as long as we don't finish before Champion of Ithica, we're good.

 

[underullospell]

Good luck,, that will be sooo awesome!!!

I wish I could see all their faces..