Slam+Poetry

media type="youtube" key="_1MHVqAWGmI" height="315" width="420" align="center"

The poem is about the challenges teachers face in a classroom. The title "Undivided Attention" is the theme; students not paying attention in class. Taylor Mali talks about the many distractions in a classroom, and how difficult it is to get a student focussed on math rather than snow falling, or a grand piano falling out of the eighth-floor window, in a building beside the school. Then ending line "Let me teach like the first snow falling" is him asking to teach with reactions that the students have when snow starts to fall for the first time of the year. The "first snow" could also be a metaphor for anything that distracts you in class. The message Taylor Mali is trying to share with us is, that teachers have to deal with the undivided attention each year, and they really want to teach their lessons so that they seem as interesting as falling snow, so students should try an d make this happen.

27/36