Transcript Poem The Farm.ppt

The Farm
By: Gary Gildner
What I liked about the poem
• I could understand it
• I could relate to it
• I enjoy the same things that the people did
in the poem
The Farm
Once, we’d fill these bright
red cans with crawlers
and a chunk of dirt for perch
and bass and pike.
Never suckers: those we took
the hayforks after, working
squeeze plays on them
at the wide, pebbly turn
where the creek goes shallow—
and freeze our feet and shins
by staying in too long
but hardly wince, flipping
sucker after sucker up the bank
and fiercely keeping score.
Later, kneeling in the sun
We’d slice their bellies
And like crazy doctors slip
The long creamy tapeworms out.
We remembered suddenly
To check between our toes
For oily bloodsuckers;
Always finding some, we’d scrape
Them off with sand (and pray
That none had crawled
In our ears
Or up our butts when swimming.)
Understanding the Poem
If I can understand a poem it makes it that much better
This is the main key in a poem to me because I don’t
understand a lot of poetry
Relating to the Poem
I have to relate to the poem
This poem has things I have done and I can relate to those
things
I Enjoy the Same Things as in the Poem
I enjoy hunting and fishing
I like the outdoors
Although I don’t live on a farm I like the farm atmosphere