The goal was to choose three poems that speak to both Grace Fay and I. Then, we introduce these three poems to the class, hoping that they will be selected to be in our class anthology as voices of our senior year of 2018. Our poems were chosen from the 2001 edition of The Best…
“Death comes in the form of a horse in shining equations.” Posted in the DHS English/Social Studies Learning Connections.
Sarah Manguso was born Newton, Massachusetts in 1974. She earned her BA at Harvard University and an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has won the Rome Prize form the American Academy of Arts and Letter, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She also…
Donald Hall’s poem “Her Garden” is published in the 2001 Edition of The Best American Poetry. The poem describes a dying garden, slightly melancholy, but implies some sort of release that was holding him back. What stood out to me first about this poem was the amount of imagery embedded in each stanza. For example,…
When looking at the title of the poem “Time” by Louise Glück , I thought it was about the complexity of time. But when reading it, not only did the poem explore the many facets of time, it also included some personal moments that I could relate to. The character of the poem was a sickly…
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