We're putting on our powdered wigs and getting ready for high tea this week as we talk about early poetry!
Works referenced:
The Chimney Sweeper, by William Blake
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43654/the-chimney-sweeper-when-my-mother-died-i-was-very-young
Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn
Alone with Everybody, by Charles Bukowsky
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alone-with-everybody/
Knocking or Nothing, by Mary Szybist
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56661/knocking-or-nothing
Alice Isn't Dead:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/part-1-chapter-4-the-factory-by-the-sea/id1088978354?i=1000367098623&mt=2
Song, by John Donne
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44127/song-go-and-catch-a-falling-star
The Faerie Queene: Book One, Canto One, by Edmund Spenser
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45192/the-faerie-queene-book-i-canto-i
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834
And Thou Art Dead, as Young and Fair, by Lord Byron
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43822/and-thou-art-dead-as-young-and-fair
Special thanks to Lincoln Peterson for reading Ozymandias, The Rape of the Lock, and The Tyger