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10 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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"There is no Frigate like a Book"
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Emily Dickinson
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Morning Poem
Wild Geese Rice |
Mary Oliver
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Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received From a Friend Called Felicity
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John Tobias
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Mother to Son
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Langston Hughes
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My Papa's Waltz
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Theodore Roethke
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My Daughter
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traditional Mexican translated by Toni de Gerez
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Writing in the Dark
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Denise Levertov
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The Cat and the Moon
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William Butler Yeats
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Mother to Son notes
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-Langston Hughes was an important poet during the Harlem Renaissance
-theme - don't give up, keep going |
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Mother to Son metaphor
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his mother's life isn't a crystal stair (negative metaphor) whole poem is extended metaphor saying how her life is like a flight of stairs
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