1. Integrating Skills Reading, listening and writing SONGS AND POEMS Why read, and sometimes even write poetry? That question is not difficult to answer if we change the word poetry to songs. …I sing when I feel good… …They are like bright and warm colors in the middle of greys… … I also like reading… … I started with small poems…

2. Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! A Poem by Keats

3. The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. A Poem by Wordsworth

4. SONGS AND POEMS Why read, and sometimes even write poetry? That question is not difficult to answer if we change the word poetry to songs. …I sing when I feel good… …They are like bright and warm colors in the middle of greys… … I also like reading… … I started with small poems…

5. The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued A Poem by Frost Dust of Snow

6. How many things does Robert Frost write? snow crow tree What feelings does the crow give you? And what feelings does snow? And the tree? me mood heart

7. A change of mood from what mood?to what mood? bored, sadlight-hearted, happy, enjoy the day’s beauty

8. Oceans apart, day after day / And I slowly go insane I hear your voice on the line But it doesn’t stop the pain If I see you next to never / How can I say forever? Wherever you go, whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes, or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you. Song Words by Richard Marx

9. Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2 Paragraph 3 Describe what the poem is about. Describe what images you see in your mind and what feelings the poem gives you Describe what you think the poem is about when you think about it more deeply. Also, give your opinions about the poem. Title:______ Name of the poet: ________

10. Homework  Draw a picture (comic strips) according to the imagery of Dust of Snow  Finish the workbook passage "The Birth of Modern Poetry" by yourself