A biopoem is a style of poetry not found in Shakespeare's
writings, so I think instead of "find" a biopoem, you will need to write a biopoem. I'll
give an overview of what a biopoem is and of the little--the very little-- we know about
Snout in A Midsummer Night's Dream and then you can put the two
together and write a biopoem for Snout. A biopoem is a biographical poem that follows a
specific form. ReadWriteThink.org presents the biopoem form as a href="http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson398/biopoem.pdf">10
line free-form poem beginning with the subject's or character's first name and
ending with their last name. In between is biographical
information.
Line two holds adjectives that describe the
subject or character. Line three states important relationships, which may include those
of sister/brother or son/daughter etc. Line four presents the things loved by the
subject or character, including ideas or things. Line five describes the subject's
feelings. Line six describes his/er fears.
Line seven lists
their accomplishments in a "who wrote ... who said ... etc" format. Line eight lists
what the subject or character hoped would happen or hoped they would experience. Line
nine tells where they lived, their residence. That brings you back to line ten and the
subject's or character's last name.
The biopoem form is
somewhat variable. Some forms make it eleven to
thirteen lines instead of ten. These forms trade what the subject or character
accomplishes for what they give and add what they need, share and are. Applying this to
Snout will be fairly simple but also fairly difficult. It will be simple because there
isn't that much information to juggle through. It will be difficult because ... there
isn't that much information.
Snout's first name is Tom,
last name, Snout. These are biopoem lines one and ten. He is unobtrusive, quiet, prone
to asking questions, thoughtful to a fault. He likes acting, Peter Quince and Bottom. He
feels concern for not frightening the ladies in the audience. He fears giving cause for
the ladies to have fears of lions.
Snout has accomplished
getting himself into a theater group and being requested to play a noticeable role. He
would like to have a wall. He lives in Athens. And again, his last name is Snout. Here
follows all nine of href="http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/characters/charlines.php?CharID=Snout&WorkID=midsummer">Tom
Snout's lines:
readability="36">
I,2,320: Here, Peter
Quince.
III,1,831: By'r lakin, a parlous fear.
III,1,843: Will not
the ladies be afeard of the lion?
III,1,850: Therefore another prologue must
tell he is not a lion.
III,1,864: Doth the moon shine that night we play our
play?
III,1,877: You can never bring in a wall. What say you,
Bottom?
III,1,932: O Bottom, thou art changed! what do I see on
thee?
V,1,1998: In this same interlude it doth befall
That I, one
Snout by name, present a wall;...
V,1,2049: [as Wall] Thus have I, Wall, my
part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth
go.
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