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'' Somewhere I have never travelled gladly beyond.''

-E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings- known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings (in the style of some of his poems—see name and capitalization, below), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century English literature.

vocabulary:

petal-one of the often brightly colored parts of a flower immediately surrounding the reproductive organs; a division of thecorolla.

be adapt to- to make suitable to or fit for a specific use or situation.

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elegy- is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

'' When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd ''

-Walt Whitman

-is a long poem in the form of an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) in 1865. The poem, written in free verse in 206 lines, uses many of the literary techniques associated with the pastoral elegy. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning in the aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Despite the poem being an elegy to the fallen president, Whitman neither mentions Lincoln by name nor discusses the circumstances of his death. Instead, Whitman uses a series of rural and natural imagery including the symbols of the lilacs, a drooping star in the western sky (Venus), and the hermit thrush, and employs the traditional progression of the pastoral elegy in moving from grief toward an acceptance and knowledge of death

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'' I wandered lonely as a cloud.''

-William Wordsworth

The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Written sometime between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account), it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes, and a revised version was published in 1815.

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< Stop all the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone>

-Funeral Blues

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National Poet of Democracy: Walt Whitman

-was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.

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Term Explanation and Vocabulary

(1)trinity- a group consisting of three closely related members.

(2)enn- every year

perennial- lasting an indefinitely long time; enduring.

annual free- a fee that a company assesses on a customer simply for being a customer. Annual fees are most common in the financial industry.

annuity- a regular periodicpayment made by an insurance company to a policyholder 

for a specified period of time.