Poetry, #1b.

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And now, behind the cut to be nice to those folks who haven't had their chance yet,

1. Pink Dominos, Rudyard Kipling. My absolute favorite Kipling poem ever. It has two punch lines.
2. The Battle of Maldon, anonymous. This is the most famous passage--I will admit that this is the only passage I can identify without resorting to translation, which is why I used it.
3. The Destruction of Sennacherib, George Gordon, Lord Byron. One of the most beautiful examples of anapaest I know.
4. The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes. Another favorite. I love ballads, especially romantic ones. I have heard that the highwayman in the poem is meant to be Dick Turpin, who did not steal lupines.
5. The Gift Outright, Robert Frost. The poem he read at JFK's inauguration. The wind was blowing too hard for him to read the poem he'd written for the occasion--the paper wouldn't lie still.
6. Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Overachiever that I am, I memorized this in 8th grade for extra credit.

Yes, I recite poetry to myself on long drives. :-)

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Re: Overachievers

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We had to memorize it in a HS freshman English class. Thankfully I was transferred to another class second semester.