English 9
Mr. Salter
Poetry Unit
Assignment 2: Images Poets
Marks:
/24
(2 for each images; 6 for each response)
What to do: Read each of the poems below and find TWO images (graphics, pictures) that reflect the poet’s voice (opinion) in each selection. Use the
internet to find the graphics or pictures. Do you like or dislike the poem? Respond in the space provided.
Poems
We Real Cool
Listen to the Poem
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Drink gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks was born in
Topeka, Kansas, in 1917 and
raised in Chicago. She is the
author of more than twenty
books of poetry, including
Children Coming Home.
Image
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Why?
Poems
Richard Cory
Listen to the Poem
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Edwin Arlington Robinson (18691935) is America’s poet laureate of
unhappiness.
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Poems
To a Daughter Leaving Home
Linda Pastan
When I taught you
at eight to ride
a bicycle, loping along
beside you
as you wobbled away
on two round wheels,
my own mouth rounding
in surprise when you pulled
ahead down the curved
path of the park,
I kept waiting
for the thud
of your crash as I
sprinted to catch up,
while you grew
smaller, more breakable
with distance,
pumping, pumping
for your life, screaming
with laughter,
the hair flapping
behind you like a
handkerchief waving
goodbye.
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