May 7, 2013
English 9-10 ESL
Mrs. McNamara & Mrs. Athanasakos
POETRY PRESENTATIONS
William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616)
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art
more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do
shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease
hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of
heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion
dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime
declines, By chance or nature's changing course
untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not
fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor
shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in
eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men
can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this
gives life to thee.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 18
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Road Not Taken
The Road Not Taken
Pablo Neruda (1904 -1973)
 Chilean Poet
 Wrote Love Poems
 Wrote Poems about
the humble people
of Latin America
and their struggle
for survival
The People by Pablo Neruda
I recall that man and not two centuries
have passed since I saw him,
he went neither by horse nor by carriage:
purely on foot
he outstripped
distances,
and carried no sword or armor,
only nets on his shoulder,
axe or hammer or spade,
never fighting the rest of his species:
his exploits were with water and earth,
with wheat so that it turned into bread,
with giant trees to render them wood,
with walls to open up doors,
with sand to construct the walls,
and with ocean for it to bear.
I knew him and he is still not cancelled in me.
El Pueblo
by
Pablo Neruda
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49960057/El-pueblo-%E2%80%93-Pablo-Neruda
El Pueblo
by
Pablo Neruda
Maya Angelou (1928-
)
Maya Angelou
Billy Collins (1941-
)
Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the
light like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him
probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski across the surface of a
poem waving at the author's name on the
shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair
with rope and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose to find out
what it really means.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Yesterday and Today
Oh, I wish that yesterday,
Yesterday was today!
Yesterday you was here.
Today you gone away.
I miss you, Lulu
I miss you so badThere ain’t no way for me
To get you out of my head.
by Langston Hughes
Yesterday I was happy.
I thought you was happy, too.
I don’t know how you feel todayBut, baby, I feel blue.
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Shel Silverstein (1930 – 1999)
 Author of:
 Children’s Books
 Songs
 Plays
 Magazine Articles
 Cartoons
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
It's all I have to bring today
It's all I have to bring today –
This, and my heart beside –
This, and my heart, and all the fields –
And all the meadows wide –
Be sure you count – should I forget
Some one the sum could tell –
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Old Men
by Ogden Nash
People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man
dies.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
Jack Prelutsky (1940-Present)
As Soon as Fred Gets out of Bed
As Soon as… (Continued)
At night when Fred goes back to bed,
he deftly plucks off his head.
His mother switches off the light
and softly croons, “Good night! Good night!”
And then, for reasons no one knows,
Fred’s underwear goes on his toes.
Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)
Dr. Seuss Quotes