Happy
second day of spring/
Oh
dear! This is something I found in my notes from the 2008/2009
story-a-day files! Well, it is the second day of spring, and
Poetry Day, so I might as well share it here. And the poem reminds me
of another poem and ninth grade English class.
I'll
be writing about this class again in other posts. But today's is
about an assignment we were given one day to pick a poem and
illustrate it. I was excited – not because I was much of an artist,
I was not – but because there was a particular poem we had talked
about, and there was only one image that came to mind when I read it.
And I could illustrate it.
The
poem is by William Wordsworth and it begins I wandered lonely as a
cloud and then the fourth line is A host of lovely daffodils!
And the picture that came to my mind when I read the lines is
of a person walking along with a cloud covering his head – that is,
a cloud where the head should be. And then daffodils at his feet and
in the background. And that is what I drew!
When
it was my turn to present my assignment to the class, Mrs. Dye, my
teacher, was a tad dumbstruck with the picture. “What is that where
the head should be?” She did not get it. And the rest of the class
did not get it. What's to get? The poet felt like a lonely cloud as
he walked along!
Oh
well, Mrs. Dye would be glad to know that the imagery stuck – and
on Poetry Day one year, I wrote about nature's daffodil!
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