Word Order______________________________________________
Activities:
I. Read the texts carefully and comment on the grammatical form that is made use
of.
II. Review your knowledge of word order in interrogative sentences.
III. Retell the contents of each poem in your own words.
IV. State the central idea of each poem.
V. Memorize the poem you like best.
Where Do Bugs Go?
Can you tell me where bugs go
when it’s cold and starts to snow?
Are they all beneath the ground
sleeping snugly, safe and sound?
Are they burrowed in a tree
hiding where no one can see?
Did they leave this chilly land
settling where the climate’s grand?
Can you tell me where bugs go,
or must I be a hug to know?
Goldie Christenson
Who Can Say?
Who can say
Why Today
Tomorrow will be Yesterday?
Who can tell
Why to smell
The violet, recalls the dewy prime
Of youth and buried time?
The cause is nowhere found in rhyme.
Alfred Tennyson
Morning
Will there really be a morning?
Is there such a thing as day?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?
Has it feet like water-lilies?
Has it feathers like a bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?
Emily Dickinson
Skyscrapers
Do skyscrapers ever grow tired
Of holding themselves up high?
Do they ever shiver on frosty nights
With their tops against the sky?
Do they feel lonely sometimes
Because they have grown so tall?
Do they ever wish they could lie right down
And never get up at all?
Rachel Field
The H-Bomb’s Thunder
Don’t you hear the H-bomb’s thunder
Echo like the crack of doom?
While they rend the skies asunder,
Fall-out makes the earth a tomb.
Do you want your homes to tumble,
Rise in smoke towards the sky?
Will you let your cities crumble,
Will you see your children die?
Must you put mankind in danger,
Murder folk in distant lands?
Will you bring death to a stranger,
Have his blood upon your hands?
Shall we lay the world in ruin?
Only you can make a choice.
Stop and think of what you’re doing,
Join the march and raise your voice.
Time is short, we must be speedy.
We can see the hungry filled,
House the homeless, help the needy.
Shall we blast, or shall we build?
The H-Bomb’s Thunder
Don’t you hear the H-bomb’s thunder
Echo like the crack of doom?
While they rend the skies asunder,
Fall-out makes the earth a tomb.
Do you want your homes to tumble,
Rise in smoke towards the sky?
Will you let your cities crumble,
Will you see your children die?
Must you put mankind in danger,
Murder folk in distant lands?
Will you bring death to a stranger,
Have his blood upon your hands?
Shall we lay the world in ruin?
Only you can make a choice.
John Brunner
Blowin’ in the Wind
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man?
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