Speaking Poems

Find a short poem you like.
Practice reading your poem.
Share your poem with the class by reading it to the class.
Write about why you like this poem.

Mrs. Walter's poem

Emily Dickinson wrote this poem.

I ’M nobody! Who are you?


Are you nobody, too?

Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!

They ’d banish us, you know.



How dreary to be somebody! 

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

 I like this poem because I don't like to be the center of attention.  I am a quiet person.  I don't like to be in a noisy crowd of people.