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Loc: Poetry 180: The Partial Explanation

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This poem describes the restaurant scene of a person sitting and waiting at a table.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Tour

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This short two-stanza poem implies the importance of looking at things in two different ways.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Before She Died

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This five stanza poem discusses the top of a poet's dog who is dying.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Poetry

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This poem is a sonnet with the topic of "poetry" and its words.
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Loc: Poetry 180: American Cheese

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This poem describes the poet's love for American cheese.
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Loc: Poetry 180: One Morning

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This two-stanza poem uses strong sensory imagery to describe upsetting discoveries one morning.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Publication Date

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This poem describes how a publication date marks the end and the beginning in an author's life.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Meadow

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This three-stanza poem describes a poet who asks questions about her soul.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen

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This five-stanza poem describes life as a teenager hanging out with friends at the swimming pool.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Hand Shadows

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This one-stanza poem describes a father demonstrating hand shadows while camping in a tent.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Printer's Error

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This poem expresses the difficulties associated with typographical errors.
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Loc: Poetry 180: She Didn't Mean to Do It

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This three-stanza poem creates a feeling of mystery, pain, and sadness.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter

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This poem shares the story of the poet wasting time by driving around on a snowy night.
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Loc: Poetry 180: In a Wall

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This five-stanza poem shares a story of a boy helping his father retrieving a dog that had fallen down a well.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Poetry of Bad Weather

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This seven-stanza poem includes words and phrases that are commonly associated wit the weather.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Green One Over There

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This non-prose piece shares a story of jealousy and the tragic illness that occurred in its midst.
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Loc: Poetry 180: A Man I Knew

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This poem describes a man that the poet once knew.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Nights

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This three-stanza poem explains that she really does not want anything other than rest.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Grammar

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This poem plays on the topic of grammatical concepts.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fault

For Students 9th - 10th
This four-stanza poem's topic of a mother worrying about her son so much that is is to a fault.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Thanks for Remembering Us

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-stanza poem describes the event of receiving an arrangement of flowers by mistake.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Remora, Remora

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem describes an encounter with a suckerfish, otherwise referred to as a remora.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Bagel

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This poem reminds the reader that adults are still children at heart.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Birthday

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares the poet life as he reminisces about his boyhood.