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Older Readers: Poems about Love DISCUSSION GUIDE
  
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  The discussion guide below is divided into two parts: (1) IMITATION and (2) DISCUSSION exercises. Teachers can use the imitation exercises to encourage students to write their own poems or stories. The discussion exercises are intended to spark students to think about applying the ideas in the poems to their own lives.  
  # POEM BOOK  
  9. Brazen Belly For the Love of Life  
  IMITATION EXERCISE
In the poem, the sign of the mother’s pregnancy (“brazen belly”) is also a metaphor for a mother’s love. What are some other signs? Write a poem using another such metaphor.

DISCUSSION EXERCISE
To encourage students to write the above poem, class discussion can focus on eliciting signs of a mother’s (or parents) love.

  
  14. Dream Love Poem Click on ice cream bar Rhythm & Dues  
  IMITATION EXERCISE
Ask students to write their own “Dream Love Poem.” Ask them to focus on what is “natural” about love.

DISCUSSION EXERCISE
Talk about why “Dream Love Poem” is a dream. Is love just a natural thing? Or does it take work? What does it mean to “fall” in love? Is “falling” in love the same as loving? Can the sense of “falling” last forever?

 
  20. Four Women and Their Men For the Love of Life  
53. Love Me Some You Rhythm & Dues
  IMITATION EXERCISE
Pick a trait of yours that people have found annoying. Write about why your friends (or lovers) should love you for that trait.

DISCUSSION EXERCISE
Students can talk about how love involves accepting people as they are, warts and all; and about how hard it is to maintain relationships if people let little annoyances blind them to a person’s qualities.

  

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