Wading into Poetry by Todd Soule https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr Post your 4 steps for each poem here en-us 2018-03-27 12:38:42 UTC 2026-01-12 04:12:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Chelsea Sportell, Mile LaMaire , Julia Clark, Allyssa B, Isabel Maire https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246458103 Introduction to Poetry:
Central Image: The readers trying to dig down and find the true meaning of the poem.
Connection to the title: The title is "Introduction to Poetry" and it is shown because they talk about striving to find the hidden meaning of the poem.
Who's the speaker?: The speaker is Billy Collins and we know this because most of his poems he has written are about himself.
What does the speaker say to us?: He says he wants to scan across the poem and don't necessarily worry about who the author is.
Nighttime Fires:
Central Image: The houses on fire and the dad's creepy smile.
Connections to the title: The title tells main idea about what happens: fires during the nighttime.
Who's the Speaker: The speaker is a young 5 year-old girl, possibly the author. It gives the perspective from someone young.
What does the speaker say to us?: The speaker is telling the story of her father who enjoys watches other people's houses burn. That maybe because his life went bad, he is happy when the same happens to other people.


]]> 2018-03-27 12:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246458103 Abby Dunster, Lian Colbry, Mariah Yahne, Courtney Shaw https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246458192 Snapping Beans:
1. The central images are very easy to locate. The image most prevalent in our minds was a cute little farm house in the South with a corn field.  The image of snapping beans was also clear, as just by reading you can picture both the grandmother and the narrator snapping the beans. The cupping of the hands was also very vivid, we think comparing the holding of the chin to holding tomatoes was very clever.
2. The connection to the title is not very deep, as they are truly just snapping beans, but what we interpreted was that "snapping beans" had a correlation to "spilling the beans", as she was bottling up all of her feelings.
3. We think the speaker is a girl in college who is too afraid to confess her true struggles of school to her grandmother.
4. Although the narrator never truly talked to the reader, we noticed that the point of view changed from I to We, indicating the idea of how we are never truly alone in our struggles.]]> 2018-03-27 12:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246458192 Abby Dunster, Lian Colbry, Mariah Yahne, Courtney Shaw https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246462214 Those Winter Sundays:
1. Dried cracking hands, very cold, poor family always has to work 
2. He works on Sundays as well, when many people have that day off
3. The son that looks up to his hardworking father, not always understanding the true meaning of his long work days.
4. We never truly understand somebody else's internal struggles and feelings.]]> 2018-03-27 12:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246462214 Catherine Krieg, Emily Klingensmith, Cole Tubergen, Crimson Draeger https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246464660 “Oh, Oh”
Some imagery in the poem is a countryside farm near a train track, somewhere with biker gangs.
The title connects to the poem as a sort of realization of how childish their dreams were.
The speaker gives off the impression of being the poet telling a story of his childhood but could potentially be a character.
The speaker is telling the reader a story of their childhood with their friends discussing their dreams for the future but ends with the loud interruption of a biker gang possibly implying the the reader that their dreams won’t be achieved.

“Dog’s Death”
The imagery focuses mostly on the dog’s physical health but also tells the reader about the scenery around them like their kitchen, their home, and driving to the vet.
The title is a warning of what the poem is about and slowly explains, so the reader isn’t surprised by the dog’s death.
The speaker is most likely the poet himself, and we can tell through his writing that he cared a lot about the dog and regrets not seeing the warning signs of the dog’s unwellness.
The speaker tells the reader about how his dog died and how he didn’t see it as soon as he should have.
]]> 2018-03-27 12:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246464660 Logan, Kara, and SethA Study of Reading Habits:The images that the group sees is a person with their “nose in a book” as it says in line one. We also see a person pretending to be something that they are not. The connection to the title shows that he likes reading.The speaker is a vampire in disguise as a human child because he has “cloak and fangs” (Line 9).It tells the readers that books are full of rubbish and that they should not be read. Mountain Graveyard: The pictures shown in this poem reveal that the setting is on a mountain and in a graveyard and the way the poem is structured looks like a gravestone. The title connects to the story by telling where the poem takes place. The speaker is anonymous due to the lack of pronouns, but our group assumes that it is Robert Morgan because this poem is considered a narrative poem for the fact that it tells a story. The speaker says to our group that graveyards can be very peaceful.l(a:An image that could be taken from this poem is a single leaf falling due to the fact that it looks like a leaf is falling. The title is the first line of the poem. The speaker is assumed to again be the poet because of the lack of pronouns.It tells the readers that the speaker is lonely as they watch a leaf fall. https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246468664 2018-03-27 13:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/soulet1/k0m55znvpxwr/wish/246468664