Poetry Presentation

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Poetry Presentation

• Frost to Limerick

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Project Outline

• Frost Picture
• Life of Frost
• Definition of Limerick
• Example Limerick
• Original Limerick
• Questions

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Life of Frost

• Born San Francisco 1874
• Move to New England at age 11, 1885
• Interest in Poetry in High School
• Dartmouth College 1892-Never Graduated

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Commercial Interruption
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Mending Wall
He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of
woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his
father's saying, And he likes having thought of
it so well He says again, 'Good fences make good
neighbors.'
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Limerick

• A limerick is a very structured poem that can
  be categorized as "short but sweet." They are
  usually humorous, and are composed of 5 lines, in
  an aabba rhyming pattern.

• An average limerick would be similar to this
• There once was a princes named Rose,
• And where she is now, no one knows.
• It is rumored she fled,
• Or at least, so it's said,
• From a prince with a very long nose.
• -- Prinny Running

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Original Limerick-Frosts Costs
There once was a man named Frost Who spent his
life counting the cost He followed the
Falls Mending his walls In the end he had friends
never lost
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