"There is no frigate like a book"
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a
Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.
Maybe we read this one last year, but I was looking for poems to use with my students too. And I really like these poems about reading. It relates to this author I found today Jimmy Santiago Baca. He has a really fun learning to read story. Similar Malcolm X, he learn to read and then starting writing in prison.
ReplyDeleteEmily Dickinson was my first love as a poetry reader. Her rhythm and thought always seemed so rhythmic with my own. I read in a few of her biographies that because of all of the books that she read and conversations that she had and letters written to friends, she often wrote of travels and circumstances in which she never really knew, just heard and dreamed of. I think that is really neat. Sometimes, I suppose the power of our imagination could write a better poem than the power of reality. Romance...
ReplyDelete"How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul."
A book and poetry as a chariot...a freedom...free of charge...that leads the human soul to places no where else does. I just love this.
Jimmy Santiago Baca & Malcom X...maybe we should add some of their to read? Maybe you secretly did for the rest of this month!