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Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :

I am giving a gift to a teacher of mine who especially helped me this year, and I'm making the guard in publisher. Since she is entirely obsessed with Walt Whitman, I'd like to find a Whitman poem appropriate to teaching, learning, and so on, but wading through Leaves of Grass isn't entirely easy.

If any Jatraqueros can think of a particular poem off the top of their head, I'd love the help. I'm still searching for it myself.

Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer is good, but it may not be what you were looking for.

Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :

Beginning My Studies?

Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :

O Captain! My Captain! has a certain Dead Poets flair, but it's a bit of a downer.

Maybe All Is Truth?

Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ...

On Old Man's Thought of School. Perfect.

quote:
And you, America,
Cast you the real reckoning for your present?
The lights and shadows of your future--good or evil?
To girlhood, boyhood look--the Teacher and the School.

Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :

Oh, lovely. Thank you, Sara.

Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :

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