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Francis E. Kazemek, Jerry J. Wellik, and Julie Barkley
"What's your favorite poem?" one of the two fourth-grade girls asked the
burly man sitting between them. He nervously twisted the piece of
paper in his hands.
"'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost," he replied.
"Can you read it for us?" the other interviewer asked.
"Sure," he said, and began to read Frost's elegiac poem that was handwritten
on the crumpled paper: "Nature's first green is gold, /Her
hardest hue to hold ..." (Frost, 1969, pp. 222-223).
"Why is that your favorite poem?" one of the girls asked.
"I remember it from high school," he said, "and I always liked
it."
The class applauded, and as the man stood he looked to the back of the
room where his wife and two pre-school children also were clapping. A smile spread across his face.
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Everybody Likes Poems! Celebrating Poetry and Literacy in the Classroom, School, and Community