Literary+Week+Poems

Hello everyone! This page will be where I will post different poems each week, and you should be reading them and thinking about all of the things we covered doing the Poetry Lesson on Monday. Make sure to pay close attention to what the meaning of the poem is, the Poet's name and the Title of the Poem because you never know when I might have a quiz on them!

Poem #1  "The Road Not Taken" By: Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,  And sorry I could not travel both  And be one traveler, long I stood  And looked down one as far as I could  To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 Then took the other, as just as fair,  And having perhaps the better claim  Because it was grassy and wanted wear,  Though as for that the passing there  Had worn them really about the same,

 And both that morning equally lay  In leaves no step had trodden black.  Oh, I marked the first for another day! <span class="f14px fntAri clr333333" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Yet knowing how way leads on to way <span class="f14px fntAri clr333333" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> I doubted if I should ever come back.

<span class="f14px fntAri clr333333" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> I shall be telling this with a sigh <span class="f14px fntAri clr333333" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Somewhere ages and ages hence: <span class="f14px fntAri clr333333" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, <span class="f14px fntAri clr333333" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> I took the one less traveled by, <span class="f14px fntAri clr333333" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> And that has made all the difference.

<span class="f14px fntAri clr333333" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Credit: Robert Frost

<span class="f14px fntAri clr333333" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Poem # 2 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Where The Sidewalk Ends By: Shel Silverstein <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">There is a place where the sidewalk ends <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> And before the street begins, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> And there the grass grows soft and white, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> And there the sun burns crimson bright, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> And there the moon-bird rests from his flight

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">To cool in the peppermint wind. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> And the dark street winds and bends. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> And watch where the chalk-white arrows go <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> To the place where the sidewalk ends.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> For the children, they mark, and the children, they know <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> The place where the sidewalk ends.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Credit: Shel Silverstein