Ulalume's Fate in two Schools Unveiled

While the contenders fight for whose the one who did it better over youtube, as I studied the videos, though they deserve considerable commendation for a "job well done". I think it's just self-exaltation to boast that the winner is the "best" when the performance is nothing but a drama that is "branded" positive but as a literary and drama enthusiast myself... this is a "circus" so amateur and deserved to be called "neophyte". The outcome always reflects about the English coaches' skills but they failed to train how to read one of the best written literary pieces of Edgar Allan Poe. They dramatize yes but the drama just plainly destroys what is supposed to be simple but elegant Ulalume. I hope the next interpretations would turn out to be better. My New York City friend commented that the poem is freely interpreted in parks by high school students and she believed that there was music as the lines are delivered. I think that point was distorted in these two interpretations. The natural music is lost as they interpreted it. There are too many elements where in fact, the essentials are not in props and drop-dead entrances, it's about RHYTHM.