![]() Or the top of the toaster, that being one of the few surfaces in the kitchen that is always free of clutter. I spend a lot of time wandering around the house looking for whatever book I happen to be reading, but I am almost always successful (fallen behind radiators is a good bet. I still think the Medici are rather romantic.įor more great poems, visit today's edition of Poetry Friday at Wild Rose Reader! Miniver thought, and thought, and thought, When swords were bright and steeds were prancing ![]() Went home and put a bullet through his head.Īnd perhaps as a reaction to my fascination with Dungeons and Dragons, my mother read me this one several times: So on we worked, and waited for the light,Īnd went without the meat, and cursed the bread To make us wish that we were in his place. In fine we thought that he was everything "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.Īnd he was rich - yes, richer than a king. And because the messages aren't wrapped in a lot of metaphor and literary allusion, getting the point is fairly straightforward.īut still he fluttered pulses when he said, ![]() Even thought the punches that Robinson packs may be obvious to the adult, I think that for a 12 year old, it's a pretty powerful moment when the point of one of his poems is realized. When I was twelve, my mother read me some of his poems, and, that being the eighties, I was, like, wow. So here's my suggestion for that age group-the poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935). It seems to me that there's not that much attention being paid to poems for the 8th grade type kid (perhaps there is, and I am just missing something, which wouldn't surprise me). ![]()
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