POETRY CIRCLES

September 9 and 10, 2014

1. AN APPLE-GATHERING BY CHRISTINA
ROSSETTI
I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple tree
And wore them all that evening in my hair.

2. JAZZ FANTASIA BY CARL SANDBURG

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes,
sob on the long cool winding saxophones.
Go to it, O jazzmen

3. MOTHER TO SON BY LANGSTON HUGHES

Life for me aint been no crystal stair

4. OZYMANDIAS BY PERCY BYSSHE

SHELLEY
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

5. THE TYGER BY WILLIAM BLAKE

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

DIRECTIONS
1. Choose a poem you would like to interpret
2. Get into your chosen group
3. Work together as a group to annotate your poem
for figurative language or other poetic devices
4. Each person should fill out either a TPCASTT or
SOAPStone chart on their poem
5. Be ready present your groups interpretation of the
poem to the rest of the class