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15 Poems From English Textbooks That I Enjoyed Reading
Read these popular poems on World Poetry Day
Happy World Poetry Day!
Poetry has been a part and parcel of everyone’s life. Even if you didn’t become a poet, you still read poems as a part of your English subject in school.
We loved to read these poems repeatedly. We had to paraphrase them, analyze them, answer questions based on them, write summaries, and whatnot. We also got to know some popular poets of the 19th and 20th centuries, namely — Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, Walt Whitman, etc.
Turning nostalgic already? I am here to take you on a journey through the poems from my English textbook that I enjoyed reading
15. Going for Water by Robert Frost
In this poem, Robert Frost perfectly captures childhood emotions and imaginations. Two young boys seek out a brook in the middle of the night, as the well beside their house has dried up. They play hide-and-seek with the moon, enjoy nature and stay with each other till they find the brook.
“We ran as if to meet the moon
That slowly dawned behind the trees,
The barren boughs without the leaves,
Without the birds, without the breeze.”
