"Poetry"

Pablo Neruda writes a poem about how poetry found him and opened his eyes and heart.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Poetry, poemcrazy, Nikki-Rosa, We Real Cool, Fast Break, Identity, Ego Tripping, Hanging Fire, odes, Sonnet 18, In Response to Executive Order 9066, Young, Poetry Cafe, poems by Nikki Giovanni
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  1. arrive
    reach a destination
    And it was at that age...poetry arrived
    in search of me.
  2. summon
    ask to come
    but from a street I was summoned
  3. abruptly
    quickly and without warning
    from the branches of night,
    abruptly from the others
  4. soul
    the immaterial part of a person
    and something started in my soul
  5. decipher
    make out the meaning of
    and I made my own way,
    deciphering
    that fire
  6. substance
    what a communication that is about something is about
    and I wrote the first faint line,
    faint, without substance, pure
    nonsense
  7. palpitate
    cause to throb or beat rapidly
    planets
    palpitating plantations
  8. perforated
    having a number or series of holes
    shadow perforated,
    riddled
    with arrows, fire, and flowers
  9. infinitesimal
    immeasurably small
    And I, infinitesimal being,
    drunk with the great starry
    void
  10. abyss
    a bottomless gulf or pit
    felt myself a pure part
    of the abyss
Created on Wed Sep 24 14:42:39 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Sep 26 16:44:49 EDT 2014)

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