Have you ever been to a farm? Well, I have. And how much I enjoyed! I chased the ducklings all over the farm, and rode on horses. I fed the cows and collected the eggs. I watched the donkeys work and the fishes swim. Have you been to a farm? Has the poet been to a farm? Find out from this poem.
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The age of trees can be determined by the number of circles or bands that are seen on the trunk when it is cut. How many circles, do you think, that the world’s oldest tree has? The world’s oldest tree is 350 million years old. The tree must be really tall and really wide.
Read this poem, Tall Trees, by Eileen Mathias.
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The poet William Blake believes in the conventional idea that nature, like a work of art, must in some way contain a reflection of its creator. The tiger is strikingly beautiful yet also horrific in its capacity for violence. That is what William Blake ponders upon, and you will read about what  he thinks of the TYGER.
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Life is like a play – we merely go through the stages of our life acting it out. As times change, we change. So do our responsibilities and priorities. This is what William Shakespeare wants to relate through this poem, All The World’s a Stage. Read it and see if you agree with William Shakespeare and his views.
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I love metal songs. Their thick, massive sound drives and emphatic beats are so enjoyable. My grandfather always disapproves of the type of music I listen to. He thinks that songs ought to be subtle and gentle and calls my metal songs ‘noise’.
The same contrast is shown by this poem The Echoing Green by William Blake. Read the poem and find out what the contrast is all about.
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Eleanor Farjeon fights with her brother one day. She knows it is not good to quarrel, but she can’t help it. What happens after the quarrel? Do they make up? Do they talk to each other? Recite this poem and find out.
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Have you heard of an insect called silverfish? It lives on your books, the carpet, paint on the wall and almost everything found at home. But don’t mistake it for the silver fishes of this poem. Anon has not written about silverfishes.
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is a poem to be marveled at and taken for granted. Robert Frost claimed that he wrote it in a single nighttime sitting; it just came to him.
This poem is so recognized for its splendor that at the funeral of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, on October 3, 2000, his eldest son Justin rephrased the last line of this poem in his eulogy: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. He has kept his promises and earned his sleep.”

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I don’t like the rain. When it rains, I cannot go out to play. Everything looks so gloomy. All I can hear is the nose that the raindrops make when it hits the floor and the roof. The thunder and lightning make it even worse. Does this poet H. W. Longfellow think the same?
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The poem you are going to read is Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. The poem is one of the most nonsensical poems, and I warn you, you may understand not even a word. It happened to me too. I read it, paused, and read it again. Pondered for a while, then read it again.
Jabberwocky beautifully skates the thin edge of being understood and being nonsense. But such glorious nonsense! Read it yourself, and see if you can make a head or tail out of it. Also read the ‘Draggerwocky’ that follows.

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