tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post5180170666892585078..comments2024-03-28T01:02:50.999-05:00Comments on NCTE Inbox Blog: The Poems in My Commonplace BookNCTEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13158338704096862694noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-27277032410743810932019-02-10T04:19:53.500-05:002019-02-10T04:19:53.500-05:00Very interesting blog. Lot of blogs I see these da...Very interesting blog. Lot of blogs I see these days don't really provide anything that I'm interested in, but I'm most definitely interested in this one. <a href="https://exhibitiontentssupplier.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Ramadan Tent Rentals</a> | <a href="https://exhibitiontentssupplier.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">الفارس العالمية للخيام</a> | <a href="https://Event Tents Dubaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17453186530356580896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-19365498759965023972007-04-10T18:02:00.000-05:002007-04-10T18:02:00.000-05:00It sounds corny but...My favorite poems are the po...It sounds corny but...My favorite poems are the poems my students write and share. Every year we do an "Anthology of Myself" (forgive me Walt) and they have the task of writing and collecting poetry that has a connection to themselves and their lives. They also reflect on each choice and why it is in their anthology, which to me is sometimes the most valuable part of the process.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-53903897371104216722007-03-27T18:02:00.000-06:002007-03-27T18:02:00.000-06:00As someone else mentioned, "A Blessing" is one of ...As someone else mentioned, "A Blessing" is one of my all time favorite poems. James Wright hits me right at my emotional center with his idea of stepping out of my body into blossom. The poem is full of wonderful imagery, but those last few lines really do it.<BR/><BR/> I also enjoy most of what e.e. cummings wrote, but especially lines like "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond/any Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-51180821066261878852007-03-27T07:03:00.000-06:002007-03-27T07:03:00.000-06:00I don't remember reading "Vernal Sentiment" before...I don't remember reading "Vernal Sentiment" before, and it is a beautiful spring poem. <BR/><BR/>One of my favorites is Gerard Manley Hopkins' "As Kingfishers Catch Fire": "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;/As tumbled over rim in roundy wells/Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's/Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;/Each mortal thing does Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-4483748045862348362007-03-26T15:36:00.000-06:002007-03-26T15:36:00.000-06:00On evenings when I am most reflective, or want to ...On evenings when I am most reflective, or want to be most reflective, I often turn to Tolkien's "The Sea Bell" and "Little Princess Mee". These poems always set me in a quiet, thoughtful mood. The images of Mee as "she walks by day" and "dances at night", and the loneliness of Frodo's alienation, fire my imagination. I love Tolkien's metric and rhyme schemes (internal and external), the resonanceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-41532083519431353932007-03-23T14:05:00.000-06:002007-03-23T14:05:00.000-06:00As an elementary teacher, I loved to use Shel Silv...As an elementary teacher, I loved to use Shel Silverstein with my students. His poems seemed to be very easy for students to remember and they loved to recite them aloud. The poems also worked as nice model texts for writing poetry of our own. I use them now with my college students and Silverstein's poetry seems to take them back to their youth.Lisa Finkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17691253818184356622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-35342130721505339882007-03-23T07:43:00.000-06:002007-03-23T07:43:00.000-06:00Since I've begun teaching, I keep a folder on my f...Since I've begun teaching, I keep a folder on my flash drive of poems I hear on the Writer's Almanac, American Life in Poetry, and other sources. I return to this folder when I need a shot of rejuvenation, a reminder that the written word can transcend the page. Two poems I read often are "The Blessing" by James Wright and "Two-headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin. "Blessing" is beautiful in its Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-48576054961361347932007-03-21T21:09:00.000-06:002007-03-21T21:09:00.000-06:00Lovely choices.Every spring, though, as I really l...Lovely choices.<BR/><BR/>Every spring, though, as I really look at the new shoots of February and the tiny March leaves on the roses and the maples, I want to shout "Frost was wrong! Nature's first green is red." <BR/><BR/>I'd nominate, as one of the most incantatory poems in the English language, Yeat's "Lake Isle of Innisfree"--"I will arise and go now..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-19299565964141201382007-03-21T15:12:00.000-06:002007-03-21T15:12:00.000-06:00One of my favorites is Frost's "The Road Not Taken...One of my favorites is Frost's "The Road Not Taken". There have been times in my life I needed to choose which way to go and I always hear "I took the one less traveled by,/ And that has made all the difference." For me, life is about following your own path-- wherever it leads. While it may be the one less traveled, it is the one that is right for you. At least, that's what I like to tell my Litteach71https://www.blogger.com/profile/14799357852426026485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-13128602183051730432007-03-21T14:36:00.000-06:002007-03-21T14:36:00.000-06:00Nice choice, Larry. I like Frost's "Nothing Gold C...Nice choice, Larry. I like Frost's "<A HREF="http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/frost/gold.htm" REL="nofollow">Nothing Gold Can Stay</A>" for similar reasons. I remember a teacher reading it to the class when I was in college and then asking us to look at the huge tree shading our 3rd floor classroom. Fresh with emerging buds and tiny leaves, the tree did indeed look more golden and Traci Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00579663655727932943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-86714530534441159732007-03-21T07:22:00.000-06:002007-03-21T07:22:00.000-06:00Since high school I have loved Theodore Roethke's ...Since high school I have loved Theodore Roethke's "Vernal Sentiment," especially at this time of year, when spring is just emerging from gray February:<BR/><BR/>"Though the crocuses poke up their heads in the usual places,/The frog scum appear on the pond with the same froth of green,/And boys moon at girls with last year's fatuous faces,/I never am bored, however familiar the scene.<BR/><BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-590444740864607060.post-55229761193346428522007-03-19T17:23:00.000-06:002007-03-19T17:23:00.000-06:00What's your favorite poem, and why? Please take a ...What's your favorite poem, and why? Please take a few minutes to share a poem and why you love to read it!Traci Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00579663655727932943noreply@blogger.com