Tonight's first students get some poetry, via two poems that I love to pair for my advanced learners: Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day" and James Wright's "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota".
Also, @LiseL, my mall had a new gift today: a lovely display dedicated to the originator of a wildly popular 18th-Centurt version of Beauty and the Beast!
I truly never know what I'm going to discover in it next. #Poetry #Literature
That's the beauty of the piece. The line can be read so many ways, but is often interpreted as one of dawning regret for everything *before* this point, *before* this retreat to the farm and through it, communion with nature and what matters most.
Thank you for your presence with it. Thank you for sharing what it stirred up in you. 💛🤗
I could (if I only would) write a whole book of poems that steal that enigmatic last line. 😁 😬 😁
Will I never cease to be amazed by the cultural wonders in that shopping mall???
@MLClark @LiseL The last line of Wright's poem shocks me.
It seemed an echoing chorus to the first, but that last line jarred me out of that. I found myself thinking, "How can one call their life a waste when they've noticed such beautiful things in the moment?"