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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Questions You Never Thought You'd Be Asked After You Left School
I've told students that no one will ever ask them these questions but that they'd need to know how to think. So now I'll ask some of those questions. I have millions of them.
1. Who was the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table?
2. What is "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in" from and who wrote it?
3. Who was the subject of The Belle of Amherst and name the actress who played her?
4. Who wrote Spoon River Anthology? What is the premise for it?
5. Give a comma rule.
6. Whose last words were "moose" and "Indian"?
7. What are verbals and give the function of each.
8. What did the A stand for in The Scarlet Letter and how did its meaning change?
9. What was the first state to secede and the last to go back into the US? What was the last state to secede and the first to go back in?
10. What is The Crucible about, who wrote it, and explain why it has that title?
8:29:00 PM
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