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“Neighbors” Conversation
Space for questions and answers about Gillian Clarke’s poem “Neighbors.” Reply below to share your ideas.
“The Chicago Picasso” Conversation
Space for questions and answers about Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Chicago Picasso.” Reply below to share your ideas.
“The Road Not Taken” Conversation
Space for questions and answers about Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.” Reply below to share your ideas.
The Bed Book Conversation
Sylvia Plath wrote in her 1959 journal: “I want to begin my Bed Book. Something freezes me from my real spirit: is it fear of failure, fear of being vulnerable? I must melt it” (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath … Continue reading
Nonsense?!
The writer Tobias Hill during his 2007 stay at Eton as Writer in Residence reintroduced students there to “Jabberwocky” in a way that made it new and mysterious again, the way Alice first encountered it through the looking glass. It … Continue reading
Villanelle Challenge
Write a villanelle using the two rhymes: /ɪŋ/ and /iː/.
Perceptive Poems
Because of their nature, definition, riddle, and martian poems offer, in their different ways, particularly perceptive views of their subjects. Description in these types of poetry, like Christina Rossetti’s “Who Has Seen the Wind?,” Emily Dickinson’s “I like to see … Continue reading
Posted in Reading and Analysis 2015
Tagged definition, description, martian poetry, poetry, riddles
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Roundtable Conversation 