Ms. Coon’s Poetry Class Blog

This is my class blog for Poetry, Fall 2008

“Bees”

Post a comment in response to/analysis of some element of the following poem. In your posted comment, piggy-back onto the comment(s) ahead of you in some way.

Bees

 

Look! Our storm-thrashed garden,

that parade of ants tottering

about on high heels waving rose

petal parasols: the same petals

in which yesterday I watched bees,

one after another—bandy legs

glittering with gold—

enjoy themselves, and which

tomorrow at breakfast

will blossom on your lips.

Poetry 09

Summer Reading Book:

A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink

Texts:

 

Distant Early Warning by Rad Smith

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath

The Colossus and other poems by Sylvia Plath

The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney

Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney

The Faber Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney by W.B. Yeats

The New Yorker 

How high is your EQ?

Thanks to “Team Empathy” (EmmettErinClaireJen) for these interesting, fun self-tests!

Empathy Quotient Self-Test

Systemitizing Quotient Self-Test

Spot the Fake Smile

Mind in the Eyes Test

RetroCreation #2

Condominium high-rises, God said, Day 1, and all of a sudden there they were,
A beacon in the middle of the soon to be city center:
With ten foot ceilings, and river views: a gas fire place and an already furnished
Living room complete with love seat
A kitchen aid, mixer, and sub-zero refrigerator: three bedrooms two and a half bath.