This document contains a dedication letter and collection of poems written by Madelaine Boyer for her brother James Michael as part of a poetry dedication project. The letter introduces several poems Madelaine wrote about memories with James, including "James" which is an acrostic poem describing his characteristics, "Little Brother" about their relationship, "Baseball" about James' love of the sport, and "The Pool" and "Chickens" about summer memories. The document also includes several famous poems selected for James, with short explanations for each choice, such as Shel Silverstein's "Listen to the Mustn'ts" to encourage him.
The document provides information about the Statue of Liberty. It discusses that the Statue of Liberty welcomes immigrants arriving in the United States and is located on Liberty Island in New York City. The statue symbolizes freedom and its full name is "Liberty Enlightening the World." It depicts a woman holding a torch and tablet, standing 46 meters tall on a pedestal, with its surface made of copper sheets riveted to an iron frame designed by Gustave Eiffel.
The document is an excerpt from the first chapter of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations. It introduces the main character, Pip, a young boy living in a rural village in England. Pip has an unsettling encounter with an escaped convict in a churchyard who threatens him and demands that he steal food and a file. The chapter sets the scene and establishes the frightening tone for Pip's early experiences.
The poem describes different sports in short, 3 line stanzas. The first stanza suggests that sports are fun when enjoyed with friends. The second stanza personifies success as having sensory attributes like the taste of Gatorade, the sound of cheers, and the feeling of self-accomplishment. The third stanza criticizes the New York Knicks basketball team. The fourth stanza lists actions associated with tennis. The last two lines are nonsense words playing on sounds associated with sports. Overall, the poem aims to highlight different aspects of sports in concise snippets.
This poem discusses the lasting impact of the death of the poet's wife 18 years ago. He is kept awake at night by memories of her, seeing her gentle face looking at him from a picture on the wall. A halo of light surrounds her head. She died in this very room from burns suffered in a fire. Though 18 years have passed, he still wears the "cross" of her death on his breast, unchanged through all the seasons, just as a cross of snow remains unchanged on a mountain in the distant West. The memory and love for his late wife remains as deeply enduring for the poet as that cross of snow on the mountainside.
This document contains several poems about baseball. It explores themes of rain delays, playing different positions like shortstop, reminiscing about childhood games, being in a hitting slump, stealing bases, late game heroics, and describing the sensations of being a ballplayer. The poems utilize various literary devices like rhyme, imagery, onomatopoeia, and metaphors to vividly capture the emotions and experiences of playing and watching baseball.
The document is a student's paper praising their father for being an honest, hardworking man who has inspired the student through his actions and words. The student's father has worked at the same job for 23 years and started at a low wage but now makes $30 an hour, exemplifying success through hard work. The student wants to follow in their father's footsteps by finding a steady job they can stick with to have a successful career and life.
The story begins with Bertha, an extraordinarily good little girl, visiting the Prince's park which contains pigs but no flowers. As Bertha walks enjoying the park's treasures, an enormous mud-colored wolf enters seeking to catch a pig for its supper. Bertha sees the wolf and hides in a myrtle bush but the wolf hears her medals clinking and drags her out, devouring her.
All precious things discovered late
To those that seek them issue forth,
For Love in sequel works with Fate,
And draws the veil from hidden worth.
—TENNYSON
The document provides information about the Statue of Liberty. It discusses that the Statue of Liberty welcomes immigrants arriving in the United States and is located on Liberty Island in New York City. The statue symbolizes freedom and its full name is "Liberty Enlightening the World." It depicts a woman holding a torch and tablet, standing 46 meters tall on a pedestal, with its surface made of copper sheets riveted to an iron frame designed by Gustave Eiffel.
The document is an excerpt from the first chapter of Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations. It introduces the main character, Pip, a young boy living in a rural village in England. Pip has an unsettling encounter with an escaped convict in a churchyard who threatens him and demands that he steal food and a file. The chapter sets the scene and establishes the frightening tone for Pip's early experiences.
The poem describes different sports in short, 3 line stanzas. The first stanza suggests that sports are fun when enjoyed with friends. The second stanza personifies success as having sensory attributes like the taste of Gatorade, the sound of cheers, and the feeling of self-accomplishment. The third stanza criticizes the New York Knicks basketball team. The fourth stanza lists actions associated with tennis. The last two lines are nonsense words playing on sounds associated with sports. Overall, the poem aims to highlight different aspects of sports in concise snippets.
This poem discusses the lasting impact of the death of the poet's wife 18 years ago. He is kept awake at night by memories of her, seeing her gentle face looking at him from a picture on the wall. A halo of light surrounds her head. She died in this very room from burns suffered in a fire. Though 18 years have passed, he still wears the "cross" of her death on his breast, unchanged through all the seasons, just as a cross of snow remains unchanged on a mountain in the distant West. The memory and love for his late wife remains as deeply enduring for the poet as that cross of snow on the mountainside.
This document contains several poems about baseball. It explores themes of rain delays, playing different positions like shortstop, reminiscing about childhood games, being in a hitting slump, stealing bases, late game heroics, and describing the sensations of being a ballplayer. The poems utilize various literary devices like rhyme, imagery, onomatopoeia, and metaphors to vividly capture the emotions and experiences of playing and watching baseball.
The document is a student's paper praising their father for being an honest, hardworking man who has inspired the student through his actions and words. The student's father has worked at the same job for 23 years and started at a low wage but now makes $30 an hour, exemplifying success through hard work. The student wants to follow in their father's footsteps by finding a steady job they can stick with to have a successful career and life.
The story begins with Bertha, an extraordinarily good little girl, visiting the Prince's park which contains pigs but no flowers. As Bertha walks enjoying the park's treasures, an enormous mud-colored wolf enters seeking to catch a pig for its supper. Bertha sees the wolf and hides in a myrtle bush but the wolf hears her medals clinking and drags her out, devouring her.
All precious things discovered late
To those that seek them issue forth,
For Love in sequel works with Fate,
And draws the veil from hidden worth.
—TENNYSON
The rattrap peddler takes shelter in an old man's cottage and steals 30 kronor from him. Lost in the woods, he realizes he has been trapped like the rats in his traps. Exhausted, he hears the sounds of a nearby iron mill and stumbles upon the forge. The ironmaster recognizes him as an old soldier, though they have never met. Seeing a chance, the peddler pretends to know the ironmaster.
This summary provides an overview of the Twilight novel by Stephenie Meyer in 3 sentences:
The novel introduces Bella Swan, a 17-year-old who moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father. In Forks, Bella finds herself intrigued by Edward Cullen, a handsome but mysterious classmate who she later discovers is a vampire. Their romance blossoms but is threatened by dangers from other vampires, as Bella and Edward struggle to balance their love with the risk that being together poses to Bella's life.
The document provides details on lighting, set design, and costumes for a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. For lighting, different lighting schemes are proposed to set the mood for palace versus forest scenes, as well as romantic and fighting scenes. The set would include a painted backdrop and cardboard trees for the forest, and antique furniture for the palace. Costumes from the medieval period would require layers for men and corsets for women, but few changes are needed so transitions should be quick.
The Rattrap is a short story that uses metaphor to illustrate how people can become trapped by material pleasures in life. The story follows a peddler who sells rat traps and sees the world as one big trap. He steals money from an old man who gave him shelter but then becomes lost in the woods. The peddler finds work and shelter at a nearby iron mill. The mill owner mistakes the peddler for an old friend and invites him to spend Christmas at his home, where the peddler is treated kindly by the owner's daughter Edla. Her kindness and compassion ultimately help free the peddler from being trapped by his own hard life.
World of Ryyah: Birth of the Half Elveslorenzmaris
In the World of Ryyah, adventure and romance are intertwined when the highly skilled young man, Donovan, in a quest to avenge a brutal act of wrongdoing, risks his own life to rescue the Elven Princess Brandela. Embarking on a dangerous trek, each displays the loyalty, courage, and heroism praiseworthy of future generations. World of Ryyah: Birth of the Half Elves is the first book in the six-part epic, The Elven Age Saga.
This document provides summaries of 18 poems:
1) The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes describes a fox entering a forest at midnight.
2) Digging by Seamus Heaney compares digging potatoes to his father and grandfather's manual labor.
3) Colonel Fazackerley by Charles Causley is a humorous poem about a colonel who befriends a ghost in his new home.
This story describes the terrifying Ms. Toulsky, a third grade teacher known for her extreme teaching methods and motto "They will learn one way or the other." Most students do not last long in her class. The story focuses on know-it-all Donald Donaldson, one of the few students who had survived so far. However, during a history lesson Donald openly criticizes the subject, causing Ms. Toulsky to fly into a rage. The story cuts off just as Ms. Toulsky marches toward Donald with her history book, leaving the reader to imagine the frightening consequences.
Richard Deankey introduces himself and describes his unusual family situation, with parents who maintained their own last names after marriage, resulting in Richard's strange last name of Deankey. He provides some details about himself and his family, including his loud and intimidating father who throws Richard through a wall after an argument. Richard also discusses his mother's poor cooking skills and intelligent sister Swydni. The only friend Richard has is Russell, an odd but wise little person he met eight years ago when Russell's large dog tackled Richard in the front yard. Russell possesses a strange mystique and helps keep Richard striving to be a better person.
This document contains 20 poems written in April 2014. The poems cover various topics such as souvenirs, mist, butterflies, trees, dreams, narration, earth day, gold, songs, turbans, children's inventories, uncles, old stories, physiology, torque, tinsel, inside thoughts, death, lampposts, hand holding, laundry, outlines, and unplugging. The poems range from 3 to 25 lines in length and explore philosophical and imaginative ideas through descriptive language and metaphor.
This story describes a visitor to Inanda Seminary, a missionary school in Africa. She is awakened by the singing of the schoolgirls, but then sees three crying girls sitting outside, who have walked a long way to attend the school but were told there is no room. The visitor feels sorry that the school cannot accept them due to lack of space and funds to feed more girls. After prayers, she hopes a solution can be found to help the girls receive an education.
This document is an excerpt from a book titled "Golf Among the Druids" that describes a man named Billy's story of how he came to live on the mythical island of Hy-Brasil after being shipwrecked as a child. The excerpt describes Billy's chance meeting with the narrator at a golf course where he overwhelmingly beats him in a round. Billy then tells the narrator the story of how he was rescued from drowning by mermaids and brought to Hy-Brasil, a lush island inhabited by druids where he was taken in by a shepherd and his wife. Billy provides vivid descriptions of life on Hy-Brasil, including the island's natural beauty and abundance
This document contains a collection of poems written by students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. There are over 30 poems on a variety of topics such as nature, animals, activities, and experiences. The poems range from a few lines to a paragraph and use creative language and imagery to express observations, feelings, and stories. Overall, the document showcases the poetic talents and perspectives of young students.
This document provides information on audiobook titles available from www.AudioBookOne.net. It lists several children's and young adult books, including titles from authors like L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, and G.A. Henty. For each book it provides the author, reader, price, and a brief description along with a link for more details. The document appears to be a catalog or listing of audiobook titles focused on juvenile literature.
The document contains 18 sentences describing people or characters using descriptive words. It discusses how a boy was unusual and dressed awkwardly, how Batman uses onomatopoeia in comic books, and how a puppy seemed innocent. It also analyzes characters like the Joker, Cinderella's Prince Charming, and the Hulk using words like pensive, urbane, and impervious.
The document provides an introduction to various types of poetry and poetic devices. It defines poetry as emphasizing the line over the sentence and using imaginative language and figures of speech. Types of poetry discussed include lyrical, narrative, imagist, confessional, ballad, elegy, and haiku. Examples of ballads, such as "Me and Bobby McGee" are provided. Poetic movements like confessional poetry are summarized.
KalaamiNew is a gazette published in July 2020. The editorial discusses how Kalaaminew, feeling envious of the attention given to Covid-19, decides to come out of her wardrobe and dress up to catch readers' attention and divert it from Covid-19. However, Covid-19, though ugly, has managed to attract everyone's full attention. The gazette also provides contact information for the publication and its team members.
This anthology contains a variety of poems about different subjects such as reincarnation, change, and video games. A prominent theme is secrets, as two poems contain hidden poems within them and one is about secrets. The anthology seeks to accurately capture the author's emotions without being contrived. It is a deep journey into a mind, but the identity of whose mind is unknown. The anthology is dedicated to the author's mother and former teacher.
The document provides an agenda for a showcase and awards ceremony taking place on March 31st, 2015 with the hashtag #getcreative. It includes several submissions from different authors, including short poems, passages from stories, and photo collages. One notable submission is a three paragraph passage from the story "The Day I Would Die" describing waking up and realizing it is the day the narrator will die.
This story is about a young girl who finds a nest of baby birds in a hollow tree trunk near her home. She visits them every day to watch them grow from tiny pink creatures into feathered birds. When the trees bloom in spring signaling it is time for the birds to leave the nest, the girl cannot find them. She discovers only four velvet feathers left behind in the hollow trunk. Upset, she wonders what went wrong and cries, missing the birds she had watched over. The story explores a child's experience of caring for wildlife and feeling loss when they inevitably leave the nest.
This document contains several poems dedicated to the author's mother, including summaries of and commentary on published poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Raymond A. Foss, Ivan Donn Carswell, Carl Sandburg, and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. It also includes three original poems by the author, Rachael Sessoms, reflecting on themes of wonder, missing surroundings, and self-identity.
This collection of poems is dedicated to the author's mother, Lisa Moyer. It includes poems about nature, life experiences, and lessons. The author summarizes each poem and explains why she chose to include it, relating themes of optimism, resilience, and the importance of choosing words carefully. She hopes the poems will inspire her mother and bring back fond memories.
The rattrap peddler takes shelter in an old man's cottage and steals 30 kronor from him. Lost in the woods, he realizes he has been trapped like the rats in his traps. Exhausted, he hears the sounds of a nearby iron mill and stumbles upon the forge. The ironmaster recognizes him as an old soldier, though they have never met. Seeing a chance, the peddler pretends to know the ironmaster.
This summary provides an overview of the Twilight novel by Stephenie Meyer in 3 sentences:
The novel introduces Bella Swan, a 17-year-old who moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father. In Forks, Bella finds herself intrigued by Edward Cullen, a handsome but mysterious classmate who she later discovers is a vampire. Their romance blossoms but is threatened by dangers from other vampires, as Bella and Edward struggle to balance their love with the risk that being together poses to Bella's life.
The document provides details on lighting, set design, and costumes for a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It. For lighting, different lighting schemes are proposed to set the mood for palace versus forest scenes, as well as romantic and fighting scenes. The set would include a painted backdrop and cardboard trees for the forest, and antique furniture for the palace. Costumes from the medieval period would require layers for men and corsets for women, but few changes are needed so transitions should be quick.
The Rattrap is a short story that uses metaphor to illustrate how people can become trapped by material pleasures in life. The story follows a peddler who sells rat traps and sees the world as one big trap. He steals money from an old man who gave him shelter but then becomes lost in the woods. The peddler finds work and shelter at a nearby iron mill. The mill owner mistakes the peddler for an old friend and invites him to spend Christmas at his home, where the peddler is treated kindly by the owner's daughter Edla. Her kindness and compassion ultimately help free the peddler from being trapped by his own hard life.
World of Ryyah: Birth of the Half Elveslorenzmaris
In the World of Ryyah, adventure and romance are intertwined when the highly skilled young man, Donovan, in a quest to avenge a brutal act of wrongdoing, risks his own life to rescue the Elven Princess Brandela. Embarking on a dangerous trek, each displays the loyalty, courage, and heroism praiseworthy of future generations. World of Ryyah: Birth of the Half Elves is the first book in the six-part epic, The Elven Age Saga.
This document provides summaries of 18 poems:
1) The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes describes a fox entering a forest at midnight.
2) Digging by Seamus Heaney compares digging potatoes to his father and grandfather's manual labor.
3) Colonel Fazackerley by Charles Causley is a humorous poem about a colonel who befriends a ghost in his new home.
This story describes the terrifying Ms. Toulsky, a third grade teacher known for her extreme teaching methods and motto "They will learn one way or the other." Most students do not last long in her class. The story focuses on know-it-all Donald Donaldson, one of the few students who had survived so far. However, during a history lesson Donald openly criticizes the subject, causing Ms. Toulsky to fly into a rage. The story cuts off just as Ms. Toulsky marches toward Donald with her history book, leaving the reader to imagine the frightening consequences.
Richard Deankey introduces himself and describes his unusual family situation, with parents who maintained their own last names after marriage, resulting in Richard's strange last name of Deankey. He provides some details about himself and his family, including his loud and intimidating father who throws Richard through a wall after an argument. Richard also discusses his mother's poor cooking skills and intelligent sister Swydni. The only friend Richard has is Russell, an odd but wise little person he met eight years ago when Russell's large dog tackled Richard in the front yard. Russell possesses a strange mystique and helps keep Richard striving to be a better person.
This document contains 20 poems written in April 2014. The poems cover various topics such as souvenirs, mist, butterflies, trees, dreams, narration, earth day, gold, songs, turbans, children's inventories, uncles, old stories, physiology, torque, tinsel, inside thoughts, death, lampposts, hand holding, laundry, outlines, and unplugging. The poems range from 3 to 25 lines in length and explore philosophical and imaginative ideas through descriptive language and metaphor.
This story describes a visitor to Inanda Seminary, a missionary school in Africa. She is awakened by the singing of the schoolgirls, but then sees three crying girls sitting outside, who have walked a long way to attend the school but were told there is no room. The visitor feels sorry that the school cannot accept them due to lack of space and funds to feed more girls. After prayers, she hopes a solution can be found to help the girls receive an education.
This document is an excerpt from a book titled "Golf Among the Druids" that describes a man named Billy's story of how he came to live on the mythical island of Hy-Brasil after being shipwrecked as a child. The excerpt describes Billy's chance meeting with the narrator at a golf course where he overwhelmingly beats him in a round. Billy then tells the narrator the story of how he was rescued from drowning by mermaids and brought to Hy-Brasil, a lush island inhabited by druids where he was taken in by a shepherd and his wife. Billy provides vivid descriptions of life on Hy-Brasil, including the island's natural beauty and abundance
This document contains a collection of poems written by students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. There are over 30 poems on a variety of topics such as nature, animals, activities, and experiences. The poems range from a few lines to a paragraph and use creative language and imagery to express observations, feelings, and stories. Overall, the document showcases the poetic talents and perspectives of young students.
This document provides information on audiobook titles available from www.AudioBookOne.net. It lists several children's and young adult books, including titles from authors like L.M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, and G.A. Henty. For each book it provides the author, reader, price, and a brief description along with a link for more details. The document appears to be a catalog or listing of audiobook titles focused on juvenile literature.
The document contains 18 sentences describing people or characters using descriptive words. It discusses how a boy was unusual and dressed awkwardly, how Batman uses onomatopoeia in comic books, and how a puppy seemed innocent. It also analyzes characters like the Joker, Cinderella's Prince Charming, and the Hulk using words like pensive, urbane, and impervious.
The document provides an introduction to various types of poetry and poetic devices. It defines poetry as emphasizing the line over the sentence and using imaginative language and figures of speech. Types of poetry discussed include lyrical, narrative, imagist, confessional, ballad, elegy, and haiku. Examples of ballads, such as "Me and Bobby McGee" are provided. Poetic movements like confessional poetry are summarized.
KalaamiNew is a gazette published in July 2020. The editorial discusses how Kalaaminew, feeling envious of the attention given to Covid-19, decides to come out of her wardrobe and dress up to catch readers' attention and divert it from Covid-19. However, Covid-19, though ugly, has managed to attract everyone's full attention. The gazette also provides contact information for the publication and its team members.
This anthology contains a variety of poems about different subjects such as reincarnation, change, and video games. A prominent theme is secrets, as two poems contain hidden poems within them and one is about secrets. The anthology seeks to accurately capture the author's emotions without being contrived. It is a deep journey into a mind, but the identity of whose mind is unknown. The anthology is dedicated to the author's mother and former teacher.
The document provides an agenda for a showcase and awards ceremony taking place on March 31st, 2015 with the hashtag #getcreative. It includes several submissions from different authors, including short poems, passages from stories, and photo collages. One notable submission is a three paragraph passage from the story "The Day I Would Die" describing waking up and realizing it is the day the narrator will die.
This story is about a young girl who finds a nest of baby birds in a hollow tree trunk near her home. She visits them every day to watch them grow from tiny pink creatures into feathered birds. When the trees bloom in spring signaling it is time for the birds to leave the nest, the girl cannot find them. She discovers only four velvet feathers left behind in the hollow trunk. Upset, she wonders what went wrong and cries, missing the birds she had watched over. The story explores a child's experience of caring for wildlife and feeling loss when they inevitably leave the nest.
This document contains several poems dedicated to the author's mother, including summaries of and commentary on published poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Raymond A. Foss, Ivan Donn Carswell, Carl Sandburg, and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge. It also includes three original poems by the author, Rachael Sessoms, reflecting on themes of wonder, missing surroundings, and self-identity.
This collection of poems is dedicated to the author's mother, Lisa Moyer. It includes poems about nature, life experiences, and lessons. The author summarizes each poem and explains why she chose to include it, relating themes of optimism, resilience, and the importance of choosing words carefully. She hopes the poems will inspire her mother and bring back fond memories.
This document contains several poems about youth and growing up submitted by Dylan James. The poems explore themes of nostalgia, change, friendship, and perceptions of youth. One poem reflects on friends graduating high school and drifting apart. Another discusses warped views of one's younger years. The poems showcase the complex feelings associated with life transitions from youth to adulthood.
This document contains a student's poetry project for class. It includes 6 poems analyzed in 3 sentences or less each. The project is dedicated to the student's teacher, Mrs. Quichocho. It explores poems by James Weldon Johnson, Henry Van Dyke, Ray Hansell and two anonymous authors. It also includes the student's original Haiku poem created for the assignment.
This document contains an agenda for a literature class that will discuss the poem "Casey at the Bat". The class will begin with recapping literary elements such as setting, mood, and tone. They will then provide historical background on the poem before reading and discussing it. The class will end by reminding students of assignments to complete, including a diagnostic test, benchmarks, and skills test required to pass the class. The essential unit question asks how poetry affects readers differently than other genres, which will be discussed at the end of the unit.
This poem is dedicated from the author, Chawn Christian, to their mother. In three sentences or less, the summary is:
The poem thanks the mother for things in their difficult relationship, acknowledges there is little sentiment between them, and explains that the author decided to write this poem for her despite their issues.
The document is the Spring 2020 issue of The Nassau Literary Review, which includes short stories, poems, essays, and art from Princeton University students published both in print and online due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the introduction discusses how many of the works resonate with experiences of navigating relationships and identity in a time of instability and transitioning to online platforms.
The Nassau Literary Review Spring 2020, "The Virtual Issue"JuliaWalton12
This document is the Spring 2020 issue of The Nassau Literary Review, published by Princeton University students. It contains an introduction by the editors highlighting how the issue was published fully online due to COVID-19. The introduction notes many of the pieces deal with themes of virtuality, wandering, and searching for completeness. It also announces new student writing and art being published in response to the pandemic. The document includes various student works of poetry, prose, art and essays, as well as information about the staff.
The document is the Spring 2020 issue of The Nassau Literary Review, which includes short stories, poems, essays and art from Princeton University students published both in print and online due to the COVID-19 pandemic; it discusses how the issue was created and edited virtually and highlights several pieces that deal with themes of isolation, identity and virtual experiences.
The document contains several poems about horses written by the author. It begins with a poem called "Wind Horse" that describes a horse who helped others and now runs freely. Several analyses of other horse poems are provided, summarizing themes of freedom, symbolism, and the bond between horses and humans. One poem tells a story about a girl who could stand after interacting with a horse. In conclusion, the document shares several original poems by the author about love, cats, identity, and horses.
The summaries analyze several poems provided in the document.
1. The first poem discusses a child with a dirty face who got dirty from various play activities like digging in the dirt, biting buttons, and more. Imagery, end rhyme, and a silly tone are used.
2. The second poem analyzes two Robert Frost poems, noting their use of rhyme schemes, imagery, and themes of longing and admiration for nature.
3. The third poem provides analysis of three additional poems, noting their use of rhyme, metaphor, personification, and themes of life, expectation, and tenderness.
The summaries analyze several poems provided in the document.
1. The first poem discusses a child with a dirty face who got dirty from various play activities like digging in the dirt, biting buttons, and more. Imagery, end rhyme, and a silly tone are used.
2. The second poem analyzes two Robert Frost poems, noting their use of rhyme schemes, imagery, and themes of longing and admiration for nature.
3. The third poem provides analysis of three additional poems, noting their use of rhyme, metaphor, personification, and themes of life, expectation, and tenderness.
This document provides a summary of 10 picture books for older children and teens that were favorites of the author from 60 books read for a course over the summer. Each book on the list is described in 1-2 sentences and the author provides a short explanation for why they enjoyed each book and found it memorable. The books cover a variety of genres including adaptations of classics, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
This document provides examples of different poetic forms and styles, including nonsense verse, limericks, clerihews, parodies, and advertising jingles. It discusses poets such as Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, and e.e. cummings who used unconventional styles. It also summarizes Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" to illustrate a more traditional poem structured through schemes, and analyzes e.e. cummings' "love" as an example of a poem structured through tropes. The document concludes by providing lyrics to children's songs and advertising slogans as additional examples of poetic forms.
This document is the dedication page from a poetry project. The author dedicates the poems to their parents, thanking their mother for all her support over the years and their father for being a role model. The dedication includes several poems by the author analyzing different styles and topics, as well as poems by Shel Silverstein and Langston Hughes to honor their mother's love of reading poetry to them.
The document provides context and analysis of the poem "As I Walked Out One Evening" by W.H. Auden. It discusses how the poem begins with the speaker taking a walk and overhearing a conversation between lovers proclaiming their eternal love. However, clocks chime in to remind the lovers that they cannot conquer time. The poem has several voices and shifts perspectives between the speaker, lovers, and clocks throughout its rhyming stanzas. It ultimately conveys that while love feels endless when first experienced, time continues to march on inevitably.
This document summarizes several poems from a poetry dedication project by Antolina Williams. It includes summaries of the poems "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats, "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath, "Houses of Dreams" by Sara Teasdale, "I Thought of You" also by Sara Teasdale, and "Touched by an Angel" by Maya Angelou. For each poem, it provides a brief analysis of themes, symbols, and the author's intended meaning. It also includes the full text of some original poems written by the author including "Thank You, Mom" dedicated to their mother.
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Horse in Egg by Matthea Harvey
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Poetry Is an Egg With
a Horse Inside
Matthea Harvey
Our concerns as adults and as children are not so different. We want to
be surprised, transformed, challenged, delighted, understood. For me,
since an early age, poetry has been a place for all these things. Poetry
is a rangy, uncontainable genre—it is a place for silliness and sadness,
delight and despair, invention and ideas (and also, apparently, allitera-
tion). Giving children poems that address the whole range of the world,
not just the watered-down, “child appropriate” issues, makes them feel
less alone. Corny as it sounds, if children find poems that express things
they have themselves thought and poems that push them beyond what
they have themselves imagined, they’ll have a friend for life. This is the
story of how I found that friend.
In the first poetry workshop I ever took (my junior year in college),
my professor, Henri Cole, handed out a page of quotations about poetry
from luminaries such as Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens. One of them read:
“Poetry is an egg with a horse inside.”
—Third grader
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I have no idea who or what that third grader grew up to be (I’m guessing
a poet, miniature-pony breeder, astronaut, or molecular gastronomist),
but I still remember the thrill I felt seeing that quote included. I don’t
remember the quotes by those beloved poetry stars, but decades later,
I include that third grader’s quote in my handouts, and it seems to sur-
prise and delight my students as much as it did and does me. Lucie
Brock-Broido knows the quote too (maybe they were in a class together?),
and once when I was in her office after visiting her class, she showed me
her scrumptious collection of eggs with little horses inside.
This spurred me to do a photo-illustration of my own because for
the last six years, I’ve been taking photographs to title or illustrate my
poems. I sorted through my collection of small horses (yes, I have such
a collection; in fact I have drawers and drawers of miniature things) and
finally found one horse that almost perfectly matched the brown eggs
I had in the fridge. I cracked one open with a spoon, let all the egg white
and yolk run out, and carefully inserted the horse, tail first. Voilà! He
looked as though he was just making his way out—tottering on his spin-
dly front legs, wondering if he would ever get the back two out and what
on earth might be ahead of him. On a day when I’m truly open to the
world (the pigeons pecking their shadows on the roof next door, the snow
on the still-green trees), that’s what life feels like to me—a bit terrifying
but pretty beautiful. When I’m on a plane and I hear the man three rows
back saying, “I am a salmon geneticist,” I want to add “who was recently
kissed in the mist” to make his statement even more Dr. Seuss–ish. When
I hear tennis player Rafael Nadal say in an interview, “Hopefully the book
will like to the people,” ...
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Poetry dedication project
1. B Y M A D E L A I N E B O Y E R
D E D I C A T E D T O J A M E S M I C H A E L
Poetry Dedication Project
2. W R I T T E N B Y M A D E L A I N E B O Y E R
Original Poems
3. Dedication Letter
Dear James,
I chose to dedicate my poetry project to you. I have included two poems
I wrote about you. Those are “James” and “Little Brother.” I also included
poems that I have written that remind me of you. Those poems are,
“Baseball,” “The Pool,” and “Chickens.”
I am leaving for college at the end of this summer, and I will be busy
working until then. I wrote these poems so that we could remember
growing up together and how we spent our favorite season, summer. I
hope you enjoy the poems I have written and selected to dedicate to you.
Love,
Maddie
4. “James”
Joyful
Always loving
My best friend
Extraordinary
Smiling
I wrote this acrostic poem to describe my brother, James. I
tried to think of his best characteristics and then include
them in the poem. I thought this poem would be a good
choice for this project not only because it describes him,
but also because it reminded me of helping him write
acrostic poems when he was in third grade.
5. “Little Brother”
Little brother, little brother
Sometimes we fight
Little brother, little brother
You used to keep me up at night
Little brother, little brother
I remember the first day you said my name
Little brother, little brother
I will always love you just the same
I chose to include this poem because it was the first poem that I wrote about my
brother. I think this shows our relationship very well. It shows that even though
we may fight, and even though he may be an annoying little brother, I still love
him very much.
6. “Baseball”
Baseball
Daddy played baseball
And now you do too
Out in the sun
Under the sky bright and blue
Working you hardest
With all of your team
Winning the game
And watching the trophy gleam
My younger brother‟s favorite sport is baseball. Even though it is not mine, I try to
be supportive of him by taking him to practices and attending his games. I wrote
this poem to remind him that I enjoyed watching him play the sport that he loves.
I also wanted him to know that even though I am leaving for college, I will still
attend as many games as possible.
7. “The Pool”
Swimming and diving
Backflips and cannon balls
Pretzels and lemonade
The pool is our home in the summer
Missing it this year will be quite a bummer
I hope you think of me while having so much fun
I will be missing you until college is done
During the summer, we go to my grandmother‟s pool almost everyday. We have
for as long as I can remember. However, because of my current job, I will not be
able to go as often this year. I know I will miss it so, I wanted to include a poem
that would remind us of the fun times we had there.
8. “Chickens”
Those evil little chickens
With their fluffy little heads
They used to chase us „round and „round
I always wished that they were dead
Possibly a fox or even a raccoon
Would come and eat them up at night
Underneath the moon
And now that they are gone
Sometimes I think I miss them
But I remind myself of the times tried to bite us
And fly right at our faces
Every single day
I do not miss that part at all
I do not miss that part today
Growing up, we always had little bantam chickens. One year, my older brother took them to
the fair. He won first place with them, but when they came back from the fair, they were evil.
They started chasing us and flying at us whenever we got near the chicken coop. I‟m sure we
looked silly running away from tiny little chickens. I chose to include this poem because we
hated those chickens back then, but now they have become a funny memory and they have
made many good stories.
10. “Casey At The Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The Outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day:
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, if only Casey could get but a whack at that -
We'd put up even money, now, with Casey at the bat.
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
And the former was a lulu and the latter was a cake;
So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
For there seemed but little chance of Casey's getting to the bat.
But Flynn let drive a single, to the wonderment of all,
And Blake, the much despis-ed, tore the cover off the ball;
And when the dust had lifted, and the men saw what had occurred,
There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third.
Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.
There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.
Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;
Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt.
Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip,
Defiance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip.
And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air,
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped-
"That ain't my style," said Casey. "Strike one," the umpire said.
From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.
"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand;
And its likely they'd a-killed him had not Casey raised his hand.
With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on;
He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew;
But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, "Strike two."
"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud;
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again.
The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.
11. “Casey At The Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
I included “Casey At The Bat” for several reasons. I
remember hearing this poem when I was in third or
fourth grade. Although I did not play baseball, I did
enjoy the poem. I wanted to share this poem with my
brother because of his love of the sport. I also wanted
to share the poem with him because he gets very
nervous when he goes up to bat. I think this poem can
show him that it is alright to strike out because
everyone does, even the great and mighty Casey.
12. “Love” by Udiah
Love
Soft and warm
Sealed with care
Sweet and kind
Will ever share
Brave and strong
Yet so fair
That is her
She's always there
Sensitive
to despair
Harkens to
others welfare
Delicate
she's elsewhere
Beautiful
beyond compare
If you meet her
Best Beware
She'll steal your heart
unaware
Her name is Love
This I swear
There's none like her
anywhere
13. “Love” by Udiah
I chose the poem “Love” by Udiah because I think it
describes love perfectly. Sweet and kind, yet brave and
strong. While this poem can be talking about the loved
shared between any two people, I think it shows the
love shared between family members very well. Love
between any two people can always die away, but the
love between family is always there.
14. “Brothers Are Forever” by Alex Romero
Brothers share a special bond,
Like blood, brotherhood,
It‟s thicker than water.
Friends may come and go,
And relationships may drift apart,
But brothers are forever.
Though the sun may rise in the east,
And set in the west,
We will still be brothers.
Though the seasons may change,
Spring, summer, fall and winter;
We will still be brothers.
What God has ordained,
No man can change,
Brothers are forever.
15. “Brothers Are Forever” by Alex Romero
I chose “Brothers Are Forever” because I believe that
there is a special bond shared between siblings that is
unlike any other. My favorite part of this poem is
“Though the seasons may change, Spring, summer, fall
and winter; We will still be brothers.” To me, this part
of the poem means that no matter what happens, no
matter what changes, we are still family and we still
love each other.
16. “Listen to the Mustn‟ts” by Shel Silverstein
Listen to the MUSTN‟TS, child,
Listen to the DON‟TS
Listen to the SHOULDN‟TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON‟TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me –
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
17. “Listen to the Mustn‟ts” by Shel Silverstein
This is one of my favorite poems. I chose this poem
because Silverstein gives some great advice in it. He
tells us to listen to and think about what others say,
but know that anything is possible. I think Silverstein
is trying to tell his readers to continue trying even
when others say you shouldn‟t or you can‟t. I chose this
poem in hopes that it will encourage my brother as it
has encouraged me.
18. “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
19. “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein
Although Silverstein‟s poems can be silly and fun,
there are some that are very meaningful. In this case,
“Where the Sidewalk Ends” teaches us to enjoy life and
not rush into the future. I think that “the place where
the sidewalk ends” is the future. It is unknown, but it
holds many good things that we can look forward to.
We all want to get to those good things, but we must
not rush into it. Therefore “We walk with a pace that is
measured and slow” to get to the end of each of our
sidewalks.
20. Works Cited
Romero, Alex. "Brother Poem." Family Friends Poems. N.p., n.d. Web.
30 May 2013.
Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends. New York, New York:
Haper and Row, 1974. 64. Print.
Silverstein , Shel. Listen to the Mustn'ts. New York, New York: Harper
and Row, 1974. 27. Print.
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence. Casey at the Bat . New York, New York: The
Putnam and Grosset Group, 1997. Print.
Udiah, . "Love by Udiah." PoemHunter. PoemHunter.com, n.d. Web.
30 May 2013.