Young Adult Book Reading Challenges discussion

This book is brings a perfect opportunity to discuss poetry in general. Does anyone have poetry of their own they would like to share? Or a favorite poem that has touched them somehow? Well share it here! We would love to read it!

My mom always would recite this poem and it has stayed with me all my life:

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

BY ROBERT FROST

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Angie wrote: "My mom always would recite this poem and it has stayed with me all my life:

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

BY ROBERT FROST

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village..."

AHHHHHHHHHHH! All I saw was Robert Frost and I knew that it would be a good poem. I love him. I liked it.

Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.

I find it interesting that the poetry in this book did not have the same negative effect on this group as it did in Shiver. Maybe it's the subject matter or how the author handled it? Either way, it's made me think I need to read more poetry.

That is interesting Meghan.