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After Walt Whitman

We read Walt Whitman today and were inspired to write our own poems.
Click here for the results.


from Song of Myself (from section 1)
By Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to
You.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease… observing a spear of
Summer grass.

After W.B. Yeats

We read William Butler Yeats today and were inspired to write our 0wn poetry. Click here for the results! We love comments!

Who Goes With Fergus?
William Butler Yeats

Who will go drive with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's woven shade,
And dance upon the level shore?
Young man, lift up your russet brow,
And lift your tender eyelids, maid,
And brood on hopes and fear no more.
And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love's bitter mystery;
For Fergus rules the brazen cars,
And rules the shadows of the wood,
And the white breast of the dim sea
And all dishevelled wandering stars.

New National Poetry Month Poster

Okay... I admit it. I liked last year's poster better. I am beginning to like the poster for 2009. "Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?" is a line from a poem by T.S. Eliot. A fun thing to do is to take a line from a favorite poet and write your own poem.

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
Enhance it?
Chance it?
Amplify and beautify?
Chase and embrace
all that I can see
When I stop to read
Poetry?

Now you try it. Here is another line from the same poem:
"Do I Dare Eat a Peach?"

Happy Birthday Hans Christian Andersen!

Hans Christian Anderson was born in Denmark on April 2, 1805. His father was a shoemaker and died while Hans Christian Andersen was still quite young. He went to school for children who were very poor. When he was still quite young, he went to a big city in Demark to find work. He was a singer and a dancer and an actor and a playwright. Oh, and he wrote stories on the side... just for fun.

Those stories are what he is remembered best for today. He considered himself ugly in a world of swans (like an ugly duckling); he often felt like he was on the outside looking in (like a match girl); he felt lonely in his willingness to tell the truth about what he saw (The Emperor's New Clothes).

To honor him today, we read The Emperor's New Clothes. We play a game in our class called "No Answers, Just Questions." Click here to see the questions we came up with.

Welcome to Poetry Month!

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