This week's poem is Mary Carolyn Davies' "If I Had Known" (visit https://lydonteaches.com/quite-excellent or search "Quite Excellent on iTunes or Google Podcast) to listen to it and hear the required word. This word ***MUST*** be used in your response.
This response counts as your participation for the week. To receive full credit, you must:
Write an original response that includes a TAG, a topic sentence that provides a claim, a short direct quotation, and commentary to explain how the quote supports the claim.
Response should be paragraph-length
Original response is due by WEDNESDAY
Be sure to explain WHAT meaning is created (based on your reading) and HOW it is created!
Reply to any TWO responses from other students by FRIDAY.
Replies should agree and expand, disagree and disprove, or question and offer an alternative to the original response or any other replies.
"If I Had Known"
If I had known what trouble you were bearing;
What griefs were in the silence of your face;
I would have been more gentle, and more caring,
And tried to give you gladness for a space.
I would have brought more warmth into the place,
If I had known.
If I had known what thoughts despairing drew you;
(Why do we never try to understand?)
I would have lent a little friendship to you,
And slipped my hand within your hand,
And made your stay more pleasant in the land,
If I had known.