In poetry slam, some people use humor and irony that have messages that they want the audience to know. One of the participants, Katie Makkai presents her poem, Pretty, which has deep meaning behind it. She does brings laughter from the crowd as she begins her poetry about her childhood and brings out a naïve persona. As the poem goes on, she slowly implies to the audience that nobody can be call “pretty”, by reasoning that everyone has flaws since he or she is born. She uses herself as one of the example and tells that one can be “pretty intelligent, pretty creative” , but not “pretty”. Thus, Makkau is able to get audience attention through her humorous beginning of the poem and also bring some important life messages to her
In poetry slam, some people use humor and irony that have messages that they want the audience to know. One of the participants, Katie Makkai presents her poem, Pretty, which has deep meaning behind it. She does brings laughter from the crowd as she begins her poetry about her childhood and brings out a naïve persona. As the poem goes on, she slowly implies to the audience that nobody can be call “pretty”, by reasoning that everyone has flaws since he or she is born. She uses herself as one of the example and tells that one can be “pretty intelligent, pretty creative” , but not “pretty”. Thus, Makkau is able to get audience attention through her humorous beginning of the poem and also bring some important life messages to her