Comments on: Ten poems to memorize in school https://thenewneo.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:27:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Collette https://thenewneo.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-855759 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 01:04:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-855759 Simply wish to say your article is as astounding.
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]]> By: Cait https://thenewneo.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-287098 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:15:42 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-287098 I loved Paul Revere’s Ride by Longfellow when I was a kid, and had it memorized at one point. It has a great cadence for recitations and it’s great when kids are learning about the Revolutionary War.

]]> By: Mrs. Adkins https://thenewneo.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-184336 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:49:06 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-184336 Glad to find your suggestions. I will be using some of these with my 5th graders. I have decided it is time for poetry memorization again!! Whether they like it, or not! 🙂 (They’ll like it later, I’m sure.)

]]> By: Poem #25: To a Mouse by Robert Burns, 1785 | Semicolon https://thenewneo.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-160972 Wed, 19 May 2010 02:26:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-160972 […] Neoneocon, Ten Poems to Memorize in School: “The dialect is almost impossible, I know. But with an explanation of the meaning of the obscure, archaic words, I think it’s a poem that will appeal to kids of that age. At any rate, it’s a masterpiece, going from the cute and cuddly (Burns almost overdoes it but stops right at the brink) to the profound.” […]

]]> By: lesley https://thenewneo.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-134920 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:11:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-134920 Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

]]> By: kassie https://thenewneo.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-93718 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:53:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-93718 you should write some poems for kids im only 9 and im have to memorize a ten lined poem thats funny caring or sweet

]]> By: toastheroven https://thenewneo.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-78482 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:49:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-78482 The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes from within the sails of people
when they realize their relationship, their oneness
with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the universe
dwells the Great Spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us.

Black Elk

]]> By: pamrose https://thenewneo.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-64433 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:00:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/23/ten-poems-to-memorize-in-school/#comment-64433 I could never have survived high school and much of undergraduate years without Edna St.Vincent Millay. I have my two original paperbacks (Sonnets & Lyrics) all marked, rewritten to fit my immediate situation, dog-eared and quite yellow and can turn to most first lines deftly.

A modern woman yet excels with sonnets which is one reason to recommend one that is a little offbeat in structure and expressive of the woman’s experience as one of the great struggles of mankind marches on:

Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it my enemy or my friend I heard,
“What a big book for such a little head!”
Come, I will show you now my newest hat,
And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink!
Oh, I shall love you still, and all of that.
I never again shall tell you what I think.
I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly;
You will not catch me reading anymore:
I shall be called a wife to pattern by;
And some day when you knock and push the door,
Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy,
I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me.

Many people feel that these issues are resolved and/or grown tiresome or stirring up trouble. Not so. e.g. my first husband. He was hip, rock and roll, well-educated professional from a family the same, Berkeley grad, fully informed of the p.c. du jour that putting women down was fully outre’.
And he would never have believed me if I hadn’t been too frightened to tell him (can o’ worms) that every time I started to tell him an opinion, theory, analysis of my own making, he would cut me off and dismiss my ideas as “sociology”! “More sociology.” (Sociology being a “soft science”) Disappointing, frustrating, maddening, hateful, substituted for, grew further and further apart until we couldn’t reach each other any longer.
OK.
This is not a sob-story. Now I’ll make my point in recommending the sonnet above, and the personal stuff.
Ready? Really? OK. Guys, please take note of your initial feelings, then if they evolve, when I say:

Seems like most of the poems recommended so far
by males (names) are about war, warriors, heroes, heroics, epic struggles and other rather brutal, competitive events or thoughts by survivors.
If so, that’s why I recommended the above piece…there is another pov.

Additionally, by the same author, an unstructured, symbolic within the reality of dead (which is the most significant result from wars) is absent from many kids communications and choices, forgotten within the omnipotence kids often feel or pose.
“Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies” is III of 3 about death, is not brutal and just kinda sneaks up with an awareness that it’s not just remote uncles or cats; it’s also friends, lovers, mothers and fathers. Not for guilt; for experiencing momentarily death’s permanence.

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