Brewer, Alberta, and Brewer, Carson. Valley So Wild. (Knoxville, Tennessee: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1975), 350-351. Poets use figures of speech in their poems. Several types of figures of speech exist for them to choose from. Five common ones are simile, metaphor, personification, hypberbole, and understatement. A simile compares one thing to another by using the words like or as. Read Shakespeare’s poem “Sonnet 130.” What are the literary devices used in the poem Trees? In the case of this poem , repetition, of rhyme and word choice, is primarily responsible for the sing-song-like qualities of the poem. The word “tree,” as one might assume, is repeated several times in the text. In total, it appears five times. There is also the general repetition of nature separate from, and connected to, the human body.

a b c d e Winchell, Mark Royden. Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism (Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1996), 159. a b Devlin, John C. "Kilmer Recalled as Oak is Felled; Kilmer's Tree (Or Was It?) Will Inspire No More" in The New York Times (September 19, 1963). Betjeman was a practising Anglican, and his faith is explored in some of his poems, particularly those inspired by Christmas. The poet’s repeated question of “is it true?”, seemingly aimed at the Christian message of the festival, moves the poem along from doubt towards a sense of divine wonder that puts the secular rituals of the season into a magnificent – albeit characteristically curmudgeonly – perspective. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Joyce Kilmer's reputation as a poet is staked largely on the widespread popularity of this one poem. "Trees" was liked immediately on first publication in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; [26] when Trees and Other Poems was published the following year, the review in Poetry focused on the "nursery rhyme" directness and simplicity of the poems, finding a particular childlike naivety in "Trees", which gave it "an unusual, haunting poignancy". [27] However, the same review criticized the rest of the book, stating "much of the verse in this volume is very slight indeed." [27]Poetry is one the best LITERARY MEDIA for children to write themselves – and to write about their own ideas, thoughts, emitions, memories andexperiences

In this couplet, the poet has tried to explain that the trees are looking at “God” throughout the day and that they lift their “leafy arms”, i.e., branches to pray to God. Maybe, the poet here has tried to tell us that if a tree is looking at God all day and praying to him, then aren’t we all Creations of God, then shouldn’t we pray? Kilmer (1886-1918) is best-remembered for this short poem, with its famous opening couplet: ‘I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree.’ But ‘Joyce’ was actually a man, whose full name was Alfred Joyce Kilmer; he was killed at the Second Battle of Marne in July 1918, aged just 31. Although an unscientific poll, Kilmer's couplet is ranked 26th of 50 with 1,080,000 Google hits, see: Forsyth, M(ark). H. "The Most Quoted Lines of Poetry" in The Inky Fool: On Words, Phrases, Grammar, Rhetoric and Prose (blog). (February 8, 2010). Retrieved May 22, 2013. Keep a GOOD SUPPLY of poetry books. Modern and traditional. A range of verse – haikus to raps, funny pieces to more seriouspiecesAssociated Press. "Doomed Oak Said Kilmer Poem Source" in The Berkshire Eagle (September 16, 1963), 8. displays – in the classroom, the classroom windows/door, in the corridors, in the hall, at the entrance to the school, or as ‘poem/story of the week’ onnoticeboards McGlone, Peggy. "Mystery solved: Joyce Kilmer's famous 'Trees' penned in N.J." in The Star-Ledger (May 10, 2013). Retrieved May 22, 2013.

Holliday, Robert Cortes. "Memoir," in Joyce Kilmer, edited by Holliday (New York: Doran, 1918), I: 17–101. Poetry (or any other form of creative writing) workshops need to follow a coherent structure to enable the mind to create effectively, to give children time to mull over ideas, to share ideas and for the resulting material to fully grow and develop. Here is one suchstructure: Though they take a lot of organisation – and best done by two teachers sharing the load – such events really make the most of a literacy–based focus. Schools organise such activities as book quizzes, dressing up as book characters and organising a book fair in the hall afterschool. What about a Residency? Christmas is not a merry time for all, as Wendy Cope makes clear in this perfectly executed poem, reproduced below. Comedic talent is as underrated in the world of poetry as it is in other art forms, but Cope is a virtuoso whose highly skilled work dazzles with irony, wit, and parody. She has been called “a jet-age Tennyson” for her pitch-perfect common touch: In “Birches,” Frost meditates on how tree branches bend and move with the wind, but they don’t easily break. As a child, he would swing from these branches, and he trusted them not to fall. Today, he’s thankful for the support of his favorite birches. 19. “My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth

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