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Narrator : Welcome to Verona Gets Deep. Ariel in the first half will be interviewing Prince and Juliet . She will first be asking Prince about the fight , what happened, was it all true, why did it start, who was in the fight, when and where was the fight , how did you decide to tell them that if they fought again they would have to pay with there life.

Then Juliet she well be asking her how she meet Romeo , was it really love at first sight , when did you realize he was the one  , who was the one you confided that you loved him . did you know he was a Montague (if not how did Juliet find out ).

Verona Gets Deep

Act 1

Interview – Prince

Ariel: Our First Guest will be Prince! (Prince walks on stage, Ariel shakes Prince’s hand) Welcome to the Verona Gets Deep!
How are you?

Prince: Good, how about your self?

Ariel: Good good. Lets get started , so how does it feel to be on Verona Gets Deep?

Prince: I like it .Thanks for having me

Ariel: So i heard about the fight in the streets in our very own Verona

Prince: Yes, it was horrible. Once they started fighting i knew that something bad was going to happen.

Ariel: So what was the “bad” thing that happened?

Prince: well all the fighting and killings are making my Verona look bad. we have many people that come and visit my beautiful city. But since all the fights they havent really came and visited.

Ariel: well that’s horrible. what are you going to do about this?

Prince: well, i told them if they continue this reckless behaivor then they will be forced to leave Verona!

Ariel:well thats reasonable.! I’m sure things will get better.

Prince: i hope!

Ariel: Thanks for coming to Verona Gets Deep! we hope to see you again sometime.

Prince: I will visit.! thanks this was so much fun!

Act 2

Interview – Juliet

Ariel: Welcome to Verona Gets Deep! (Juliet walks on and shakes Ariel’s hand )

Juliet: Thanks for having me here to day!

Ariel: Any time , So the word is that you have been seeing a Montague behind your father and mother backs , how do you feel about that?

Juliet: its not that i don’t care i do , but my love for Romeo has grown over night and can not be stop even by my father .

Ariel: do you think that the fighting with stop after you are married?

Juliet: No I don’t, I think it will just get worse, but this has gone on to long, my fare love will not be taken from me nor i will be taken from him. Where he goes i go, where he lay i lay, when he dies i shall die also.

Ariel: When you first saw Romeo what did you think?

Juliet: well i thought that we would be together forever, love at first sight , No one could change my mind.

Ariel: How did he look at you?

Juliet: Like i was one only one in the world. He even made me feel that way.

Ariel: Even after you found out who he was, you were still in love with him?

Juliet: Yes, your true love comes once in a life time , like i said nothing will change that.

Ariel: You too are made for each other. Will you have kids to carry on your new life?

Juliet: Kids? (laughs) kids are not in the picture, i don’t think i’ll have kids at this age. i am way to young. But when i mature and get older i will.

Ariel: That sounds reasonable. Well we don’t have any more time we need to go on are brake . Thank you for coming . If any one has any more questions to ask Prince or Juliet you can visit http://amfresta.webs.com

Second half

Narrator : Now that we are back from are brake we have Benvolio , Friar Laurence , and Romeo up next now this should be interesting.

Act 3

Interview – Benvolio

Ariel: Welcome to the Verona Gets Deep!

Benvolio: I appreciate you having me here today.

Ariel: Really, it’s not a problem. so what really happened between Romeo and Tybalt?

Benvolio: Well, at first me Mercutio, and Romeo were walking in the street, when we saw Tybalt. Tybalt approached us.

Ariel: And what did Tybalt say?

Benvolio: He said that he hates the word peace, and that he wants to have a sword fight with Mercutio.

Ariel: Did Mercutio accept the fight?

Benvolio: Yes, as a matter of fact he actually took at his sord and they started fighting.

Ariel: Who won the fight? and was anyone killed?

Benvolio: Tybalt unfortuantly. mercutio actually died.

Ariel: Well where did Romeo come into the fight?

Benvolio: Well, as they were fighting, Romeo tried to break up the fight. when he jumped in front of Tybalt to stop him, Tybalt stabbed mercutio right though the chest.

Ariel: Wh my gosh! that must of been a horrible sight! what did you do?

Benvolio: I brought him into a house where i tried to help him but he died. then Romeo walked up to Tybalt and just stabbed him, he dropped to the floor and died. romeo ran and the prince came. I’m not sure what happened next because i left.

Ariel: Well thanks for your time, and i hope to see you again on Verona Gets Deep! Up Next Friar Laurence!

Act 4

Interview – Friar Laurence

Ariel: Welcome to the Verona Gets Deep!

Friar Laurence: I am so excited to be on here! I have been dreaming of being on here!

Ariel: awwww, Thanks Friar Laurance. That Means A lot!

Friar Laurence: Anytime!

Ariel: So, you married romeo and Juliet together?

Friar Laurence: Well, Yes I did!

Ariel: Why did you agree to it, when you knew that thier families were rivals?

Friar Laurence: because. If you would have seen how much they cared and loved eachother you would understand.

Ariel: Ohh, that is so cute. So how did you feel after you married them?

Friar Laurence: I felt proud and happy to have married such a wonderfully couple !

Ariel: and how did they feel?

Friar Laurence: they felt like nothing else mattered in the world but them.

Ariel: well, thanks for coming!

Friar Laurence: Anytime! Thanks for having Me!

Act 5

Interview – Romeo

Ariel: Welcome to the Verona Gets Deep!

Romeo: Hi, Ariel! how are you today?

Ariel: I am good! Thanks! So how do you feel about juliet?

Romeo: Well everytime i think of her my heart fills up with joy and happiness. I have never felt like this with anyone but her.

Ariel: Do you still feel that way?

Romeo: Yes! And i always will. I love her with all my heart.

Ariel: Do you think she feels the same way?

Romeo: Of course she does. The way she looks me in the eyes lets me know how much she really cares.

Ariel: That’s adorable! How come even tho your families are rivals you still fell in love?

Romeo: Well, you only have one life, and one true love. You can’t pass it up no matter how hard you try.

Ariel: I totally agree!

Romeo: Yeah, my parents will relize what she has meant to me since the first time i looked into her eyes.

Ariel: Will you have kids?

Romeo: I hope so! I want kids with her. Just not at this age.

Ariel: Well, thanks for coming! Maybe we will have you again!

Romeo: Anytime Ariel! Thanks for having me!

Ariel: Your welcome.

Ariel: Well this is the end of verona gets deep! See you next week when we have Justin Bieber and Trey Songz.

Mary Oliver

Biography

Mary Oliver knew at an early age that she wanted to be a poet, and she had the stamina  to work at it, even in long periods without recognition, publication, or financial security. Later, she was equally adept at withstanding praise and awards without much interruption to her work a feat with which many other writers are not so successful with .

She was born September 10, 1935 in Maple Heights, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland, Mary is the daughter of Edward W. Oliver, a social studies teacher and athletic coach in the Cleveland public schools. She began writing poetry at age 13. Mary in the AWP Chronicle said . when she was only a little girl. what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other “world of the imagination” into which one could go, and stay.

Mary Oliver attended Ohio State University and Vassar College but didn’t earn a degree. She worked for a time as a secretary for the sister of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay’s influence is apparent in Oliver’s first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems (that was in 1963). These lyrical nature poems are set in a variety of locales, especially the Ohio of Oliver’s youth. Her childhood plays a more central role in The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems in 1972 which she attempted to re-create the past through memory and myth. The Night Traveler explores the themes of birth, decay, and death through the conceit of a journey into the underworld of classical mythology. In these poems Oliver’s fluent imagery weaves together the worlds of humans, animals, and plants.

Her volume on American Primitive , which won a Pulitzer Prize, glorifies the natural world, reflecting the American fascination with the ideal of the pastoral life as it was first expressed by Henry David Thoreau. In House of Light Mary explores the rewards of solitude in nature. New and Selected Poems ,which won a National Book Award, White Pine , Blue Pastures , and West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems are her later collections. She also wrote about the writing of poetry in two slender but rich volumes, A Poetry Handbook and Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse . Winter Hours includes poetry, prose poems, and essays on other poets. She is still alive till this day.

Awards and Honors

• 1969/70 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
• 1980 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowshiph
• 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for American Primitive
• 1992 National Book Award for Poetry for New and Selected Poems
• 1998 Lannan Literary Award for poetry
• 1998 Honorary Doctorate from The Art Institute of Boston
• 2007 Honorary Doctorate Dartmouth College
• 2008 Honorary Doctorate Tufts University

Poetry collections

• 1963 No Voyage, and Other Poems (Dent (New York, NY), expanded edition, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1965.
• 1972 The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems Harcourt (New York, NY)
• 1978 The Night Traveler Bits Press
• 1978 Twelve Moons Little, Brown (Boston, MA),
• 1979 Sleeping in the Forest Ohio Review Chapbook
• 1983 American Primitive Little, Brown (Boston, MA)
• 1986 Dream Work (Atlantic Monthly Press (Boston, MA)
• 1987 Provincetown Appletree Alley, limited edition with woodcuts by Barnard Taylor
• 1990 House of Light (Beacon Press (Boston, MA)
• 1992 New and Selected Poems Beacon Press (Boston, MA),
• 1994 White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems Harcourt (San Diego, CA)
• 1995 Blue Pastures Harcourt (New York, NY)
• 1997 West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems’ ‘Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA)
• 1999 Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA)
• 2000 The Leaf and the Cloud Da Capo (Cambridge, MA), (prose poem)
• 2002 What Do We Know Da Capo (Cambridge, MA)
• 2003 Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays Beacon (Boston, MA)
• 2004 Why I Wake Early: New Poems Beacon (Boston, MA)
• 2004 Blue Iris: Poems and Essays Beacon (Boston, MA)
• 2005 New and Selected Poems, volume two Beacon (Boston, MA)
• 2005 At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver (audio cd)
• 2006 Thirst: Poems (Boston, MA)
• 2007 Our World with photographs by Molly Malone Cook, Beacon (Boston, MA)
• 2008 The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
• 2008 Red Bird Beacon (Boston, MA)
• 2009 Evidence Beacon (Boston, MA)
• 2010 Swan: Poems and Prose Poems (Boston, MA)

Non-fiction books and other collections

• 1992 A Poetry Handbook Harcourt (San Diego, CA)
• 1998 Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA)
• 2004 Long Life: Essays and Other Writings Da Capo (Cambridge, MA)

Some of my favorite poems of Mary Oliver

The Summer Day

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean-

The one who has flung herself out of the grass,

The one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

Who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down?

Who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes?

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

Into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

How to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

Which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

With your one wild and precious life?

By: Mary Oliver

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

Love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

Are moving across the landscapes,

Over the prairies and the deep trees,

The mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

Are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

The world offers itself to your imagination,

Calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–

Over and over announcing your place

In the family of things.

Mindful by Mary Oliver

By Mary Oliver

Every day

I see or hear

something

that more or less

kills me

with delight,

that leaves me

like a needle

in the haystack

of light.

It was what I was born for—

to look, to listen,

to lose myself

inside this soft world—

to instruct myself

over and over

in joy,

and acclamation.

Nor am I talking

about the exceptional,

the fearful, the dreadful,

the very extravagant—

but of the ordinary,

the common, the very drab,

the daily presentations.

Oh, good scholar,

I say to myself,

how can you help

but grow wise

with such teachings

as these—

the untrimmable light

of the world,

the ocean’s shine,

the prayers that are made

out of grass?

Bibliography

1. 1. www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Mary_Oliver/3127
   2. http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/category/mary-oliver/
   3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver

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