The poem that I chose is Ghost Dance by Sara Littlecrow-Russell. The title is something that sounded familiar to me, but the reason I chose to read this poem originally was that it told a story rather than describing something, someone, or a feeling, which had been a common theme among the poems that I had been browsing. I also knew that I wanted to recite a poem that used a more low tone rather than an upbeat one, which is something that the majority of this poem had. Subtle and major tone changes and pauses were more easily visualized for me while reading this the first few times more than some of the previous poems I had read. Finally, I had realized that the poem is something that I already had some knowledge on from another class that I had been taking during the year. Realizing this allowed for me to analyze in much more detail what historical events and ideas some of the lines and the entire poem were referencing which made the poem more powerful to me. Being able to connect the different lines of the poem to things that I had previously learned was interesting to me. All of these factors were what made this poem interesting enough for me to choose this poem over some of the other poems that I had been considering. This poem delves into not only the meaning of the Ghost Dance and why it was used, but also the aftermath and reflection of it in the later stanzas. To fully understand this poem, the reader must have some historical context of what the Ghost Dance was and