Poetry for Children 5903-23
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Poetry Break 29

 Two poems: A classic poem (such as "The Raven") and a contemporary poem that are similar in some way (include both poems)

Classic Poem
 
Something Told the Wild Geese
by Rachael Field

Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, "snow."
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries, luster-glossed,
But beneath warm feathers
But something cautioned, "frost."
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spices
But each wild breast stiffened
At remembered ice.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly -
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.
 
The Oxford Book of American Children's Poems,Ed Donald Hall
     New York: Oxford University Press. 1999
         
Contemporary
 
The Return
Barbara Juster Esbensen
 
Bound with silence,
Chained with ice,
Frozen, muffled,deep,
The world begins
To move again,
Stirring from its sleep.
 
The tip-tap-tup
Of icicles
Awakes the melting night.
And from the sky
A wedge of cty:
Returning geese in Flight.
 
Swing Around the Sun. Minneapolis:
Carolrhoda Books.2003
Introduction
 
 I had to memorize this poem when I was elementary school.
 
 
Extension
 
Read the first poem; ask the class to listen for key words that explain the season. Read the next poem and do the same thing. Do a Venn Diagram and compare and contrast the two poems.
 

An original poem you have written yourself

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