Humanities/human life and experience

Poetry has immense power to inspire, entertain, and teach powerful truths about human life and experience. This activity will focus on several short examples of poetry in the hope that they will kindle a desire for more.

Read the following examples of poetry:
• Reluctance (Robert Frost)

• Sonnet 14—If Thou Must Love Me, Let it be for Nought (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

• A Lady who Thinks She is Thirty (Ogden Nash)

• What’s the Use? (Ogden Nash)

• Rattlesnake Meat (Ogden Nash)
As you read, look for the elements of meter, rhyme, theme, descriptive language, and humor. Submit a 250-500 word post, discussing your findings. Describe which poem is your personal favorite.