So I suggested that my Russian class read classic russian poems in class sometime. I guess I was nostalgic about senior language at St. John's... my Russian teacher like this idea, and then counter-proposed that I find a good English poem to translate into Russian and share with the class... oy! Not as easy.
So here is an open call for suggestions... I need a poem, preferably well known or written by someone well known, which was written originally in English, and is not too long or complicated... IOW, T.S. Eliot would probably be out.
Any suggestions? Oh yea, and I need to find the poem on the internet.... help!!
by love.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
call for a poem
Posted by Kristi at 6:48 PM
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Located at:
http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/elizabethbarrettbrowning/poems/sonnetsfromtheportuguese/howdoilovetheeletmecounttheways.html
Trying again....
How about "How do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning? You can find the poem at the above link.
Love,
Dad
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
here
"not too long?" son of a gun...I guess that rules out "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock!"
well, ya can't go wrong with Shakespeare. pick a sonnet, any sonnet. might be a little difficult to translate, but at least they're pretty short.
Blake has some good short poems (i am partial to 'the tyger')
ha. famous and short (but the quality??):
William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Maybe some Poe would be appropriate. Maybe 'Eldorado'? It's pretty short. http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/poe/poe_ind.html
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