Full Description
This stunning anthology of favorite poems about our relationship with the natural world, visually interpreted by acclaimed comic artist Julian Peters, breathes new life into some of the greatest poems of all time.
These are poems that can change the way we see the environment, and encountering them in graphic form promises to change the way we read the poems. In an age of increasingly visual communication, this format helps unlock the world of poetry and literature for a new generation of reluctant readers and visual learners.
Following the seasons of the year and of life, Nature Poems to See By will also help young readers see themselves differently. A valuable teaching aid appropriate for middle school, high school, and college use, the collection includes favorites from the canon already taught in countless English classes.
This sequel to the artist's award-winning anthology Poems to See By includes adaptations of poems by Langston Hughes, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, Mary Karr, Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Robert Burns, Rhina P. Espaillat, Joy Harjo, Alfred L. Tennyson, Matsuo Bashō, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith, Li Po, Carl Sandburg, Ueda Chōshū, e. e. cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Christina Rosetti, and Philip Larkin.
Contents
Summer
Daybreak in Alabama, Langston Hughes
Adlestrop, Edward Thomas
And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time ( Jerusalem), William Blake
Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?, William Shakespeare
Truth, Gwendolyn Brooks
Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas
Autumn
Mushrooms, Sylvia Plath
There Came a Wind Like a Bugle, Emily Dickinson
To a Mouse, Robert Burns
Butchering, Rhina P. Espaillat
This Land Is a Poem, Joy Harjo
The Voice of God, Mary Karr
Winter
Three Haikus About the Moon, Matsuo Bashō, Masaoka Shiki, Ueda Chōshū
The Eagle, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
Not Waving but Drowning, Stevie Smith
Alone Looking at the Mountain, Li Po
Fog, Carl Sandburg
Spring
i thank You God for this amazing, e. e. cummings
Sandpiper, Elizabeth Bishop
A Birthday, Christina Rossetti
The Trees, Philip Larkin
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth
God's Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins
