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A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Emily Dickenson
A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him—did you not
His notice sudden is,
The grass divides as with a comb, 5
A spotted shaft is seen,
And then it closes at your feet,
And opens further on.
He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn, 10
But when a boy and barefoot,
I more than once at noon
Have passed, I thought, a whip lash,
Unbraiding in the sun,
When stooping to secure it, 15
It wrinkled and was gone.
Several of nature’s people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality. 20
But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.
Responding to the poem
1. Who or what is the “narrow fellow”? What clues presented as similes and metaphors gives us clues to its identity?
2. How does the speaker feel about the narrow fellow? How does the speaker feel about other creatures?
3. What is significant about the key detail the speaker mentions in line 11? Why do you think the speaker mentions this?
4. Explain and analyze the metaphor in the last stanza.
5. Do you think the speaker’s feelings toward the “narrow fellow” are common? If so, why do you think that few people feel “a transport of cordiality” for him?
My Mother Remembers Spanish Influenza
John Ratti
1979
I was the first person in our town
to catch the Spanish Influenza.
I heard it came over on the streetcar,
hissing and snapping to itself
as it crossed the river 5
And when the car stopped at the foot of our hill,
the bell rang twice, the flu got off
and burst inside my head
like sparklers on the Fourth of July
Soon it was smooth and hot as rails in the sun, 10
running inside my head, metal on metal, ice on ice.
When it began to go away,
the neighborhood children took it, piece by piece,
on the thick, round wheels of their roller skates.
Mother brought me a white paper bag 15
of coconut macaroons.
I ate three and I was sick
into the gray metal basin
filled with disinfectant and water
that was kept near my bed. 20
Mother doubted that the flu came on the streetcar.
It seemed more likely to her
that my two young uncles
had brought it back from France with them,
hidden in the silk webbing 25
that stretched between the carved ivory fingers
of the painted fan they had given me.
But I knew better.
I could still hear it, when Mother left the room at night,
whispering to itself about itself 30
as it came across the river on the last car.
It stopped at the foot of our hill for a second,
and then rode on down the valley to the carbarn,
where it waited out the night.
Responding to the poem
1. Who is the speaker in this poem?
2. Find at least two passages in the poem where the speaker personifies the Spanish Influenza. Be sure to be specific and indicate line numbers.
3. How does the speaker describe their illness? Are there any details the speaker uses that stand out for the reader?
4. Analyze one of the passages where the speaker personifies the Spanish Influenza. Explain what makes that passage significant to the poem overall.
5. Are there any elements of the poem that seem particularly disturbing to you? Why?
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
1807
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 5
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: 10
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay, 15
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood, 20
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Responding to the poem
1. How does the speaker begin the poem? What do their actions suggest about their mood?
2. What do you think the speaker meant by a “vacant” and a “pensive” mood?
3. How do the daffodils affect and contrast with the speaker’s mood?
4. Think about the speaker’s experience. Do you think anyone else would have reacted the same way? Is this experience unique to the speaker and their own mind? Explain.
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