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Part B

How to Eat a Poem | Eve Merriam

1. What do you think of this poem?

2. This poem is an extended metaphor comparing two different things. What is being compared here?

3. What are some key phrases that let us know what Merriam is comparing reading poetry to?

4. Remember from an earlier unit that tone is the speaker's attitude toward a subject. What is the speaker's tone toward poetry in this poem? Defend your response with phrases from the poem.

Part C

"i carry your heart with me" | e.e. cummings

5. What do you think of this poem?

6. Most students think that all poetry has the same theme: love. Is this a love poem? How do you know?

7. How is the speaker never without his/her darling's heart? What line tells us why?

8. What does the speaker say is "the deepest secret nobody knows" and "the wonder that's keeping the stars apart"?

Part D

"All the World's A Stage" | William Shakespeare

9. What do you think of this poem? (It's actually a poem taken from one of Shakespeare's plays)

10. Shakespeare says there are SEVEN "ages of man." What are the five that go in between the first and the last? Submit them in order.

(A) infant (B) ___________ (C) __________ (D) ____________ (E) ______________ (F) _____________ (G) second childishness

11. Why does the speaker seem to think the beginning and ending of life are so similar?