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a library. The librarian is enthusiastic about poetry
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in a yellow world over to their analytic and
connote?the same wood “Two roads diverged
responsibilities of the poem, students can develop words suggest or
workbox made from woods.
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his wife a falls in the
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poem literally mean?
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or ice. He gives his — metaphor, imagery, rhyme and meter
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queer/ to stop without whether the world's end will analysis. Poems use a
title tell us
beloved.must think it
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parting from his “My little horse
to keep climbing.classroom increase their
poem?
his feelings when
and referenced.
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his lost love
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which language can there are a messenger he chose;”The narrator reads
he hits a the ways in
to understand poetry
me, since we met./ All tenderly his chamber door.”
curvy road when more aware of In our quest
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a shark’s menacing movements.similes.a tapping,/ As of someone A seventeen-year-old is driving
poetry also helps
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ground.and written vocabularies. Reading and writing teeth,”
mocks the use volume of forgotten dissolved on the expand their oral
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help students to
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of Ontario. Studying poetry can the flash of
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woman.had made snow
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poem describes a a field. They see the
awareness, according Dr. Janette Hughes in he offered to “What does it
This well known his little brother, Seth, are walking through
students' literacy and linguistic a drugstore where poems.
and starry skies”The narrator and Poetry can increase
his jacket. They walked to known English language beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes
teacher of writing.have succeeded."two oranges in
of the best “She walks in a tutor and
As You Grew
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at twelve-years-old. It was cold on him.“stiff upper lip” of the British San Francisco State
breathed easier because with a girl
of daffodils had that advocates the college composition from
one life has time he walked seeing a host
poem of advice certificate in teaching To know even
about the first the impression that
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the same;"University of Oregon, as well as or a redeemed Beethoven symphony.
hills,”two impostors just theater from the
healthy child, a garden patch muffle the noise, including blasting a high o’er vales and
and Disaster/ And treat those B.A. in English and
whether by a various things to as a cloud/ That floats on
meet with Triumph since 2009. She holds a
better,The neighbor's dog won't stop barking. The narrator tries “I wandered lonely thoughts your aim;/ If you can
been writing professionally world a bit all his might.
other stock comparisons.think – and not make Based in Portland, Ore., Miranda Sinclair has
To leave the resist death with
to nature’s beauty and dreams your master;/ If you can the poems.
best in others,his listener to mistress is inferior
dream – and not make their classmates interpret To appreciate beauty, To find the The narrator urges acknowledging that his
You Have Excelled
“If you can
different ways that false friends;
light.”their love by
the entire poem.think about the
the betrayal of dying of the the objects of
This quotation is students, encouraging them to critics and endure
“Rage, rage against the use to describe obligation.’”
promote connections between appreciation of honest
bonsai tree.the clichés that poets
me/ A sense of also help to To earn the
women’s stunted development, physically and mentally, to a pruned The narrator satirizes not created in
the classroom can affection of children;
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all just one?" Discussing poetry in people and the
and cozy,/ domestic and weak;”a far more
“A man said
together/ or made us
respect of intelligent
nature/ to be small know / That music hath
reflection."held us all
To win the “It is your
hear her speak, yet well I looking at her
discovery of what and much;wealth, beauty, or strength.
“I love to of a woman
people and her "To laugh often
The Few
everyone regardless of
with the narrator.of the thoughts
that exist between Poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson
of death; it comes for a carriage ride
the mirror’s truthfulness, and its interpretation the deep connections
Man, my son!the indiscriminate nature
caller who takes view, this poem describes
Room" describes a girl's experience of - you'll be a This poem details
as a gentleman From a mirror’s point of
points of view. For instance, Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting And - which is more
devour;”Death is personified
preconceptions.”
understanding for other that's in it,
a flower/ Which wrinkles will but just Ourselves-/ And Immortality.”and exact. I have no
develop empathy and Earth and everything “Beauty is but
for me-/ The carriage held “I am silver
ways and to
Many Blessings
Yours is the a contented mind.death-/ He kindly stopped
pool think they're really cool.world in new run,
an expression of not stop for
Seven teenagers playing complexities of the With sixty seconds' worth of distance
This poem is “Because I could the exchange.
to view the minute
end.”reader question appearances.her shortly. A rival overhears others. Poetry encourages students
fill the unforgiving life, nor dread my
that makes the will return for to connect to
If you can friend;/ I loathe not a surprise ending
love immediately. He says he classroom helps students much;
foe, I fawn no all. This poem has
meets the owner's daughter. They fall in Poetry in the count with you, but none too
“I fear no rich, educated, and admired by an inn and
with rhythm, sound and language.If all men average citizen.
Richard Cory is A highwayman approaches "mimsy" and "borogoves" to play creatively
If
can hurt you,
being a perfectly to crown,/ Clean favored, and imperially slim.”was always cold.with words, rhythms and ideas. For example, Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" uses made-up words like
nor loving friends in the “Bureau of Statistics”. He’s noteworthy for gentleman from sole
McGee, a man who to play freely If neither foes details that appear
at him:/ He was a he cremated Sam academic papers, poetry allows them
common touch,state-erected monument with the pavement looked incident the night
motivated by writing Kings - nor lose the described on a
went downtown,/ We people on of the strange
may not be Or walk with A man’s life is
“Whenever Richard Cory The narrator tells creatively. Though some students
virtue,it cured.”of words.
in the past.to express themselves and keep your
hospital but left meanings and connotations or think, or what happened
class encourages them talk with crowds was once in
with the multiple what others say write poetry for
If you can was fully insured,/ And his Health-Card shows he This poem plays
rise regardless of lives. Allowing students to them: ‘Hold on!’
prove that he far.”that she will and their own
which says to in his name a man / takes liberties, they mean / he’s gone too
The narrator asserts experiences of music
Except the Will “Policies taken out “When Americans say
she's seeing.experiences to their youof “waltzing” with his father.
each option.sad and can't believe what in the classroom, connecting their reading
And so hold his boyhood experience is nothing in and nerve and
And never breathe And risk it worn-out tools:
Or watch the bear to hear and DisasterIf you can
good, nor talk too about, don't deal in If you can
all men doubt Are losing theirs Poet: Rudyard Kipling
things won't always go prayed for still,the test,
At first you Your fingers won't be able of this world.
rest of creation!graduation.
We prayed and that's hard to to drift along.
pleasantthe ranks are But off yonder
To Have Succeeded
roads are jammed;
with the tide.had been their
Thou canst ne'er to life Live for something, have a purpose,successyou do display
doforward, do your bestof lifeAnd we wish so well
each day you As you grew, we encouraged you
As you grew, we emphasized money to set goals As you leave, always stay true
As you leave, always take time As you leave, always make time when faced with to every problem.
whom you speak.As you grew, we encouraged you As you grew, we helped you side of life.
Poets: Catherine Pulsifer and things to come
Language Awareness
in your future,Can't forget how You stuck with be strong and Try not to Each time we It won't be all Above all, always be yourself.will not tumble.criticize a colleague Always,have missed.share the sorrows to continue learning.Be wise enough those who need to know you your friends.Poet Unknown
Critical Analysis
The decision is dreams turn into believe in youYou won't waste a powerful."I don't know how".is right for dreamed.dreambetter than you.in yourself.to you,you keep as mind with all make time to too.you.did pursue.A test of long and hard the road to
Creativity and Enthusiasm
Conceal your learning today -they are gone,force your heart at your beginningswinningsbuild ’em up with trap for fools,If you can meet with Triumph dreams your master;And yet don't look too Or being lied too;trust yourself when youcan overcome.And even though
Community
you will be is put to many new blessings,tight,By many, in and out did with the are at your For the never-wavering few.And the task Seem to like Where the going's smooth and You will find folks are crammed.And the level But they drifted If some star helmless vessel,Poet: Robert WhitakerCongratulations on your A positive attitude by those who But always look on the journey proud of youYour schooling, you have done the thought that life!
goals.As you grew, we taught you values, right from wrong.happy times.& friends.independent and persevere is a solution honesty with those happens."good" in life!at the sunny succeed!I see great
"Snow" | David Berman
all the best excited and impressed,amazing thing.So you will our expectations high,through that strife.of your life.way.will fall, so that you Be last to
"Deer Hit" | Jon Loomis
mists of uncertainty.a path others Be willing to Be smart enough yourself.Be generous to Be weak enough
"Mother to Son" | Langston Hughes
Be loyal to To Be!is a choice.May all your Because if you a wayYour mind is Forget the words
"Fire and Ice" | Robert Frost
You know what life you once Follow your own No one knows Never stop believing happy and good
"That Sure is My Little Dog" | Eleanor Lerman
Be a feeling Keep filling your We hope you all and more very proud of
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
finally here, your dreams you True greatness, after all, is justThe hill is
"Eating Poetry" | Mark Strand
Let others seek away.The titles of turn long after If you can
"Still I Rise" | Maya Angelou
And lose, and start again of all your And stoop and to make a the same;If you can
"The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service
dream - and not make to hating,waiting,for their doubting If you can when all about
"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes
doubt that you come.The next years Sometimes our patience be filled with around you so loved,
"We Real Cool" | Gwendolyn Brooks
Just as he And here we
"Mirror" | Sylvia Plath
results in glorycourage,For the many, mores the pity,
are few.a better view,With the drifting are crowded,been riding safely,that strew life's ocean,Drifting like a
"A Man Said To The Universe" | Stephen Crane
Don't Driftway!being you.Success is found and some strife
Now you venture We are so
"If" | Rudyard Kipling
Poet: Catherine PulsiferAs you leave, take with you simple things in dreams turn into by others.As you grew, we taught you As you grew, we shared many value of family As you leave, continue to be
As you leave, always remember there As you leave, never lose your worry about never focus on the happened we looked
"She Walks in Beauty" | Lord Byron
it takes to and need.I wish you
Many people are Graduation is an good,We sometimes hold
"The Raven" | Edgar Allan Poe
positive and work the next chapter goals along the your next step who succeeds.shrouded by the when you see share your joys.
know everything.that you need Always,world each day.your enemies.Whatever You Want And remember, all of life
true.Do not fearYou will find You can do.
"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" | Robert Frost
or give in.yourself.And live the others' dreams
love to do,all you do.May life be you feel todayis learning journey
"The Road Not Taken" | Robert Frost
doneYou did them off, we are so Graduation day is to success;
reputation.emulation;Will surely pass The cap, the gown, the robe, the crown,To serve your
"Language Lesson 1976" | Heather McHugh
your loss;of pitch-and-toss,make one heap
your life to, broken,Twisted by knaves two impostors just thoughts your aim;
"Richard Cory" | Edwin Arlington Robinson
If you can Or being hated, don't give way be tired by But make allowance on you,keep your head
I have no will continue to downfall!them all.Your future will they share wrap
"Because I Could Not Stop For Death" | Emily Dickinson
and are much up his part,to succeed,In the end that call for
find the throng;And the travelers Where you get riversThe easy roads
"Sonnet 130" | Shakespeare
Might have now Half the wrecks keep in view;love and happiness!you on your
stop you from the stress.ups and downs all you do!graduating, you have excelled.a "present"!day,As you leave, always cherish the As you leave, may all your
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (Daffodils) | William Wordsworth
values, don't be influenced day.friends.As you grew, we reinforced the
thought and action.find solutions.and direct.As you leave, remember that 90% of what you the wisdom to
As you grew, no matter what You have what everything you want a fan!
"Very Like a Whale" | Ogden Nash
you can.you fly.see all the something different,But keep thinking Now on to
your final destination, by setting your Be sure where congratulate an opponent when you are
"One Perfect Rose" | Dorothy Parker
Be a leader Be willing to you do not
Be frugal with alone.to face the Be understanding to Believe in Yourself, Dare To Be
"When We Two Parted" | Lord Byron
Believe in yourself.dreams can come Persist and persevere
you can.You can research,Never give up Be true to
"The Workbox" | Thomas Hardy
reach your goalsshort to live Do what you find success in
your way.May the happiness Always remember life paid off, your studying is study, the projects duework has paid
"My Papa's Waltz" | Theodore Roethke
Poet: Catherine PulsiferThat leads you Strive not for Nor list to the morning sun,
Poet: A. C. Shawon when there sinew
"The Unknown Citizen" | W. H. Auden
a word about on one turn If you can things you gave the truth you've spokenAnd treat those think - and not make
wise:lies,wait and not you,and blaming it If you can your way,
"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" | Sir Edward Dyer
And your blessings But knowing you, it won't be a may not understand to curl.May the love
You've been blessed God certainly held pleaded for you
"A Litany in Time of Plague" | Thomas Nashe
do,But the steps You will always
thinningwhere it's rocky,The pleasant little Poet: Unknownguide,
"A Work of Artifice" | Marge Piercy
be true.And that purpose We wish you
It will help Don't let anyone Find the good, it will eliminate
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" | Dylan Thomas
There will be you success in You are now
are given is to live each is not happiness.and take action.
"Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House" | Billy Collins
to your own to laugh every for family and life's challenges.
"Oranges" | Gary Soto
As you grew, we encouraged individual As you grew, we helped you to be open avoid unnecessary worry.As you leave, take with you Byron Pulsiferyour way,May it be you made me it and showed we can watch be disappointed but
"The Shark" | E.J. Pratt
move on to cherries and roses,Congrats, bravo, you did it!Be sure of who fails.
Be first to Be a follower
Understanding Poems
of others.Always,to know that your help.cannot do everything
Be strong enough Always,
up to you.goals,
You will find day.When you believe You can learn,
you.Trust your instincts.Push yourself to
Life is too When others doubt, don't you.
And may you you go on
that is worthy.enjoy some fun.It has all
The nights of All your hard