1. 1st meeting
TODAYS LECTURE:
POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY
Nikki Giovanni
Knoxville, Tennessee
I always like summer
best
you can eat fresh corn
from daddy’s garden
and okra
and greens
and cabbage
and lots of
barbecue
and buttermilk
and homemade ice-cream
at the church picnic
and listen to
gospel music
outside
at the church
homecoming
and go to the mountains with
your grandmother
and go barefooted
and be warm
all the time
not only when you go to bed
and sleep
Study Questions
1. Name five foods that the speaker associates with summer.
2. Name three of her favorite summer activities.
3. What can the speaker be “all the time” in summer that she cannot be the rest of the year?
Extention
Choose one of the following task.
1. a. Change that poem with the different speaker (parent, friend, teacher, etc.).
b. consequently, he/she will have the different feeling and or favorite food/activities with
the previous speaker.
2. Make your own poem:
a. choose a speaker
b. mention the speaker’s favorite place/ time/ activities, etc.