Taylor Duffy - The Poet

12/15


This is a snippet from the poem, "Story Telling" by Edgar Guest.


New stories every night they ask.
And that is not an easy task;
I have to be so many things,
The frog that croaks, the lark that sings,
The cunning fox, the frightened hen;
But just last night they stumped me, when
They wanted me to twist and squirm
And imitate an angle worm.


The poem is about children wanting to hear bedtime stories. Although this part in the poem is about bedtime stories, it could be about reading a poem and this part just made me think of van der leeuws part where he talks about the poet. He says that they carry power with words they read and must portray these words. The parent in the story has to portray all these different animals to his child. He is creating "a living image." I liked this poem because it is almost a poem within a poem. To the child, the dad is moving her with these stories. The dad is the poet.