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“Perchance to Dream” or “Breaking the Rules”: party invitees describe the party theme and entertainment of their dreams

“This Keats thing is getting ode” or “An ode-fashioned entertainment”:  Comparing four other Keats odes to The Eve of St. Agnes

“Come to the Aid of Our Party”: Delegates nominate a slate of running mates – an adjective and a noun

“Let’s Play Favorites”:   Zoom party attendees read their favorite stanzas and explained why they chose them  

“Woofèd Phantasies”:   Attendees wove superstitions evoking the poem  

“It’s all about YOU”:   Attendees related an event/ character/phrases from the poem to their lives   

“Happy Tales to You!”:  Reimagined happy endings for various characters in the poem    

“St. Agnes’ Eve Children’s books”:   Created illustrated books to encourage a future interest in Keats     

“St. Agnes’ Eve Comics”:   Each participant created text for a 6-panel comic, like Dinosaur Comics      

“That’s One for the Archives”:   Reactions to party artifacts, relating a Discovery, a Question, or a Story      

“St. Agnes’ Eve 'Spot It!' OWL”:  Teams wrote a stanza, linking one line to the next via a special deck of cards       

Should we switch poems?:   Teams compared EoSA to other Keats poems    

“St. Agnes Theme Songs”:  Selected/created theme songs for EoSA characters 

“The Eve of St. Agnes for Today”:   Wrote txt msgs for EoSA characters  

“TGISAE: Thank God it’s St. Agnes' Eve!”:    Imagined what selected poem characters were thankful for 

“Poetic Form X 3”:   Wrote Haiku, a “Six-Word Story” or a Limerick based on “The Eve of St. Agnes” 

“WiKeats-pedia”:    developed copy to augment the current Wikipedia entry for “The Eve of St. Agnes” 

“Channeling the English Poet”:    interviews determined if party attendees had channeled events from the poem  

“Everyday (St. Agnes Eve) Conversations”:   based on the TV show “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?”™  

Marketed the TV Mini-Series “The Eve of St. Agnes” to the masses:   TV Guide-like synopses of “episodes”   

“That Reminds Me...”:   Participants chose a stanza and told why it reminds them of something personal   

Teams planned various aspects of the major motion picture “The Eve of St. Agnes”    

Each guest developed an  improved version of Keats’ epitaph and created a mini-gravestone    

“Argent Revelry:   St. Agnes’ Eve Squares (like Hollywood Squares™)    

“Who Wants to be a Bloated Wassailler?” (like Who Wants to be a Millionaire?™)     

Team members worked together to design a page of the St. Agnes’ Eve website 

“Poetry in 'Glass'”:   (created “stained glass” panels of oil painting “Madeline After Prayer” by David Maclise) 

St. Agnes Family Feud™ game  revealed party-goers most popular answers to party trivia    

“20 Questions” to correctly identify an image/phrase from the poem     

“St. Agnes’ Eve Scramble”:   Like Beat the Clock™, the challenge is to put words and lines in order     

“Le Mot Juste”:   a word substitution game, with the challenge to identify the imposter     

“St. Agnes’ Eve Lexicography”:   the Dictionary game, featuring arcane words from the poem 

“St. Agnes’ Eve Play-Doh™”:   party guests unleashed their “inner child” to depicts characters from the poem

“Do-It-Yourself” Top 10 Lists that David Letterman never dreamed of      

“The Spinning Wheel of St. Agnes": a Phrase Craze™-based Wheel of Fortune™ game played on the Macintosh

A World Builder™ St. Agnes’ Eve adventure role-playing game on the Macintosh to flee the castle with Madeline 

“St. Agnes’ Eve Jeopardy™”:   discovering how much guests know about the poem and the life of Keats 

Each team re-wrote a portion of Keats’ classic in a different literary style 

Guests brought a “grab bag” gift that evoked something from the poem 

“St. Agnes’ Eve Anagrams”:  unscrambling words or phrases from the poem 

“St. Agnes’ Eve creative writing”:  hiding a phrase  from the poem in an unrelated topic

“St. Agnes’ Eve: The Crossword Puzzle” presented a challenge to teams of two

“St. Agnes’ Eve Charades”:  The St. Agnes version of everyone’s favorite party game 

“St. Agnes’ Eve Mad-libs™”:  replacing Keats’ words with others (using correct meter and rhyme scheme!)

“St. Agnes’ Eve Treasure Hunt”:  finding objects evoking the poem “hiding” in plain sight 

“St. Agnes’ Eve Clue™ ”:  a board game to deduce details about Madeline’s dream 

Crayon illustrations of favorite tableaux; scenes immortalizing the poem are now in the dusky gallery  

A dramatic reading of the poem, presented in darkened chambers and inspired by Keats, cates, and dainties