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Friday, April 12, 2013

April is Poetry Month

"NOT cool Robert Frost!"



Actually, Robert Frost was pretty cool, but so is KidPresident.


Can you think of alternate endings to these famous poems? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
"Sonnet 43", Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
"Do Not Go Gentle Into the Good Night", Dylan Thomas


Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me.
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death", Emily Dickinson


I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.
"Howl", Allen Ginsberg


And it was at this age ... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river.
"Poetry", Pablo Neruda


She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies.
"She Walks in Beauty", Lord Byron

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