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Read & discuss "What the Last Evening Will Be Like" by Edward Hirsch. Write a poem by the same title ("What the Last Evening Will Be Like") using the following guidelines:
Read & discuss "What the Last Evening Will Be Like" by Edward Hirsch. Write a poem by the same title ("What the Last Evening Will Be Like") using the following guidelines:
- Write it in the 2nd person.
- Set the scene using vivid imagery to create place and mood.
- Make it at least 3 stanzas.
Read & Discuss
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
"I Have Done What I Could" by Robert Francis
"A Life in a Steel Mill" by Michael S. Weaver
Homework: Write two poems.
1.) Write a "Father" poem about your own father or a father figure.
2.) Write a poem titled "I Have Done What I Could" in which you reflect on something