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	<description>A high school teacher trying to make it through life</description>
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		<title>Carpe Diem, Making the Most of Time, and a Few Dead Poets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carpe Diem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are food for worms, lads,&#8221; announces John Keating, the unorthodox English teacher played by Robin Williams in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. &#8220;Believe it or not,&#8221; he tells his students, &#8220;each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.&#8221;
The rallying cry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Possible Topics for &#8220;Mid-Term Break&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney]]></category>
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Seamus Heaney&#8217;s &#8220;Mid-Term Break&#8221; offers many possible topics to write a paragraph about.
By Friday my seniors will have to annotate Seamus Heaney&#8217;s &#8220;Mid-Term Break&#8221; as well as write an insightful paragraph about it. Writing about poetry is not easy for them, so to get them ready, to sort of grease the wheels, we did a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wallace Stevens]]></category>
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I found this interesting short film about Wallace Steven&#8217;s &#8220;Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.&#8221; I plan to use it as part of my poetry unit with bith 10th and 12th graders.
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		<title>&#8220;The Daffodils&#8221; by William Wordsworth (Rap)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Wordsworth]]></category>
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MC Nuts spits William Wordsworth hip-hop style.
The Daffodils
by William Wordsworth
			I wandered lonely as a cloud
   That floats on high o&#8217;er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
   A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem of the week: The Darkling Thrush, by Thomas Hardy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Keatsian image of the thrush produces one of Hardy&#8217;s most lyrical poems
[[Thomas Hardy]] and his thrush belongs to the Romantic tradition, in which birds express emotion in &#8220;songs&#8221; that inform human lives. Hardy was close enough to the 19th century to be able to present the bird as a symbol of hope for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Prelude&#8221; by William Wordsworth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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William Wordsworth
A behemoth of a poem, The Prelude is essentially a philosophical autobiography in blank verse, the story of the growth of the poet&#8217;s mind. In the course of the poem, Wordsworth explores his own imagination as worthy fodder of an epic.The poem evolves out of Wordsworth&#8217;s overarching metaphor that life&#8217;s journey is a circular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ubi Sunt&#8221; in &#8220;The Wanderer&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anglo-Saxon poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theme of isolation dominates The Wanderer.  Most of the poem gives the reader insight into the mind of a man suffering great sorrow because of the death of his family and comrades. He spends his days in a painful exile, reflecting on the life he once had &#8212; an exile forced upon him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Wanderer&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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The Anglo Saxon poem, The Wanderer, consists principally of two different speeches,  the first (lines 1-5 and 8-57) uttered by the eardstapa (land-wanderer), the second (58-110) by the philosophical person described as snotter on mode (wise spirit). The poet supplies sage advice in the epilogue (112-115). Some see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edwin Arlington Robinson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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Edwin Arlington Robinson was a transitional poet between the generations of Whitman and Frost.
Today Edwin Arlington Robinson is known primarily for his poem Richard Cory, which was popularized by Simon and Garfunkel on Sounds of Silence. But he wrote others of probably greater depth, including Luke Havergal, Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s favorite. Robinson&#8217;s poems have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>List of Poems Used in Dead Poets Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of the movie comes from T. S. Eliot&#8217;s Tradition and the Individual Talent.
&#8220;No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.&#8221;
Here are the poems in order of appearance.
To the Virgins, Make Much of Time [...]]]></description>
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