Poetry Out Loud

The poem I chose to do was Broken Promises by David Kirby. Its meaning is about raising children. You make promises to yourself about how you will raise your children. Then you end up breaking them because sometimes its just too hard to do something you say your not going to. Also the parent in this poem which I personally thinks is a father, cannot understand the actions of his children. He doesn't get why he can do so much for them but yet they do not care. They are rude and nasty. They don't even care that he is the one that puts a roof over their heads.In the end the father has enough. He hates them for how ungrateful they are and tells them they need to love him. If it wasn't for him they wouldn't even exist.
The meaning of the poem to my life is simple. Sometimes teenagers take there parents for granted. When we get punished we act like they are horrible people even though later on we will end up sleeping in our beds which is provided by them. Also I have made promises to myself about how I want to raise my children when I am older. How do I know I will follow through with those and won't end up breaking them when the temptation becomes just to much for me to handle anymore.
In the way I will speak is how I will convey the meaning. In the beginning I will put passion in my voice and then look sad and sound sad when the father gets rejected. I will show how I feel about my children growing up in my facial expressions and voice. Then as I get to the end where the child is kicking and screaming I will sound angrier and angrier. Finally I will scream one word and bring it down to soft sad tones for the last line. I haven't really thought of any hand movements. I'm not a hand movement type of person.