Jackson Hille recited the poem Forgetfulness, by Billy Collins. His physical presence was very well done. He used his hands to portray the emotion you should feel with the words he was saying. He properly plays the roll of a man, losing his memory yet he is (i hope) way to young to.He had good volume and articulation and he was easy to understand. So obviously you can tell that he isn't the one the poem was written about! He kept the audience pretty intrigued by the way he "poised" his questions and statements. The performance could have been a little better if he had changed his tone a little more.

This poem was about people forgetting things, hence receiving the title Forgetfulness. The last stanza is really about the authors past life and how he was affected by memory loss. When he talks about the planets, he is saying how those memories disappeared. Also, when he mentions that "something else is slipping away", he doesn't only mean the flowers and the uncles, but all of the other knickknacks stored in the back of his brain. When he says " the moon in the window seems to have drifted out " it shows how his last glimmer of actual memory is slowly fading until they finally disappear.