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Exploit it for what its worth. Ensure the visit is part of a continuum, a process. Work on poetry/especially that poet’s writing before the day. Get the children thinking of general and specific questions they can ask the poet. Listen attentively during the performance so you can discuss certain poems with the children later. Make notes during the workshops. The very best performances and workshops are, without exception, where the teachers are 100% committed and involved. And why not ask two child volunteers to read out their own poems – previously written – to the poet on the day? Children love doingthis. POETRY ASSEMBLIES – children perform poems they have written – either as individuals, in groups or as a wholeclass The poem seems to remind us that even our most seemingly pure encounter with the realness of nature is one mediated through an equally real world of economic and legal arrangements: these woods are not just ‘nature’, they are owned by someone who has every legal right to consider Frost a trespasser. Despite his reputation as the great novelist of Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy wrote more than 1,000 poems and considered himself to be first and foremost a poet. This Christmas poem is a subtle discussion of the nature of faith; it might be far-fetched to imagine oxen kneeling to the new-born baby Jesus, but the speaker still wants it to be true.

Everyone wants a poet on those days – and therefore if you are adamant you need someone at these times you need to book up at least six months in advance. If you can’t get a poet for those actual days, schools could invite the writer in BEFORE those days, so that they can come in to the school, generate some real enthuasiasm for poetry and get the children writing. And then, on the actual day, the focus can be on the children and their poetry reading, writing and performances, not the visitingpoet–as–celebrity. What about a Poetry/Book Week? The poem concludes with the speaker explaining that no matter what humankind does, no poem or piece of art will be lovelier than what already exists on the planet.

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One of Frost’s best-loved poems if not the best-loved, ‘Stopping by Woods’, like Hardy’s ‘The Darkling Thrush’, takes a wintry evening as its setting but goes further into the woods than Hardy did (who was merely leaning ‘upon a coppice gate’). Poets use figures of speech in their poems. Several types of figures of speech exist for them to choose from. Five common ones are simile, metaphor, personification, hypberbole, and understatement. A simile compares one thing to another by using the words like or as. Read Shakespeare’s poem “Sonnet 130.” What are the literary devices used in the poem Trees? The line “the giant wears the scarf” is a personification of the tree. For the speaker, the tree is a link to her past. In a way, she treats the tree like a person that can “tell” (conjure) these memories as if it (the tree) could speak and tell these stories. Trees were favorite symbols for Yeats, Frost, and even the young Pound.... But Kilmer had been reading about trees in another context[,] the movement to stop child labor and set up nursery schools in slums.... Margaret McMillan... had the happy idea that a breath of fresh air and an intimate acquaintance with grass and trees were worth all the pencils and desks in the whole school system.... The English word for gymnasium equipment is 'apparatus.' And in her book Labour and Childhood (1907) you will find this sentence: 'Apparatus can be made by fools, but only God can make a tree.' [32] Writing COMMUNAL POEMS – teacher acts as scribe at the board – and the children are sharing ideas and creating poems as a community of writers; class can write to a set title or opening line/verse or poetic form or modelpoem

In a 1929 letter, Kilmer's widow, Aline, wrote a verbatim account: "The poem, I definitely remember, was written at home, in the afternoon, in the intervals of some writings. The desk was in an upstairs room, by a window looking down a wooded hill." Letter, Aline Kilmer to Joanna Zanders (25 March 1929), in the Georgetown University Lauinger Library (Washington, DC).

Teaching about the latest events?

Exploring the various FORMS OF POETRY – writing in a variety of poetic forms – free verse, rhyming poems, raps, kennings, shape poems , list poems, haikusetc.

Goodyear, Dana, "The Moneyed Muse: What can two hundred million dollars do for poetry?" in The New Yorker (double issue: February 19/February 26, 2007). Retrieved August 1, 2013.

The tone of Joyce Kilmer’s ‘Trees’ is light-hearted, as the final couplet makes clear: poems are foolish things next to nature, but nature – embodied in the poem by the tree – is superior because it is the work of God. God is mentioned several times in Kilmer’s poem: ‘only God can make a tree’, but earlier, ‘A tree that looks at God all day’. God and Nature are in harmony; poems and poets are trivial things by comparison. I remember the first time I heard this poem...sung to music when I was a little kid. Always loved trees! The poem can be seen and read as a simple one, but it consists of a range of literary devices. These are the literary devices used in the poem “Trees”: Juxtaposition– The poet has used juxtaposition in the following lines to compare and contrast human creation with God’s creation.

Brother Roberto, C.S.C., Death Beneath the Trees: A Story of Joyce Kilmer. (South Bend, Indiana: Dujarie Press-University of Notre Dame, 1967), 68.Though they take a lot of organisation – and best done by two teachers sharing the load – such events really make the most of a literacy–based focus. Schools organise such activities as book quizzes, dressing up as book characters and organising a book fair in the hall afterschool. What about a Residency? In the third couplet, the speaker develops the character of this kind of tree further. Due to its position on the planet, and it’s generally unchanging structure, it is always facing God. It “looks at God all day.” This fact is to the tree’s benefit. Its religiosity makes it at once more and less human. The tree finds a connection with a God as much of humanity does, but it more devoted than any could hope to be.

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