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Poetry Practice

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;

And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,

Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird

That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

1. List out the four writing styles and their purpose.

2. Is poetry a writing style or a writing form?

3. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

4. How would you describe the rhythm of the poem? Think of how the poem is read.
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The Bear on Main Street ​by Dan Gerber

What made the man kill this bear?

His truck, across which the bear's body lies,
tells me it wasn't to feed his family
or because his children were cold.
The bear has beautiful black feet, delicate
almost, like the soles of patent leather slippers,
and the wind riffles the surface of its fur
with the sheen of water in the autumn sun.
The bear looks as if it might only be sleeping,
but its tongue lags from its mouth, and the man
has wrapped it with stout twine and bound it
to the bed of his truck,
as if he were afraid it might speak.
Three teenage boys pull their pickup to the curb,
One of the boys guesses what the bear must weigh.
Another wants to know how many shots it took,
and the third boy climbs down.
He strokes its nose and forehead.
He traces the bear's no longer living skull
with the living bones of his fingers
and wonders by what impossible road
he will come to his father's country.

5. Name at least two types of imagery that you notice in this poem. Where do you see this imagery?