This document provides a description of the features of a poem through analysis of the poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer. It instructs students to identify poetic devices in the poem like similes, personification, and rhyme scheme. The poem is about the beauty of trees and how they are directly connected to nature through interacting with elements like rain, snow, and providing habitat for birds. It concludes that while humans can write poems, only God can create something as magnificent as a tree.
This document provides a description of the features of a poem through analysis of the poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer. It instructs students to identify poetic devices in the poem like similes, personification, and rhyme scheme. The poem is about the beauty of trees and how they are directly connected to nature through interacting with elements like rain, snow, and providing habitat for birds. It concludes that while humans can write poems, only God can create something as magnificent as a tree.
This document provides a description of the features of a poem through analysis of the poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer. It instructs students to identify poetic devices in the poem like similes, personification, and rhyme scheme. The poem is about the beauty of trees and how they are directly connected to nature through interacting with elements like rain, snow, and providing habitat for birds. It concludes that while humans can write poems, only God can create something as magnificent as a tree.
Study and examine the following poem and using the graphic organizer given, identify the different features of the poem. Trees By: Joyce Kilmer A tree that may in Summer wear I think that I shall never see A nest of robins in her hair; A poem lovely as a tree. Upon whose bosom snow has lain; A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Who intimately lives with rain. Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; Poems are made by fools like me, A tree that looks at God all day, But only God can make a tree. And lifts her leafy arms to pray;