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www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© BOOKS BY KENNETH KOCH Poems Permanently Ko, or A Season on Earth Thank You and Other Poems Bertha and Other Plays When the Sun Tries to Go On The Pleasures of Peace Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry A Change of Hearts: Plays, Films, and Other Dramatic Works Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JULY 1990 Copyright © 1973, 1990 by Kenneth Koch All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Random House, Inc., in 1973. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Koch, Kenneth, 1925– comp. Rose, where did you get that red? 1. Children’s writings, American. 2. Poetry—Study and teaching. I. Title PS508.C5K58 1974 811′.5′408 73-17480 eISBN: 978-0-307-76510-9 v3.1 www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following poems: “Oath of Friendship” from Translations from the Chinese translated by Arthur Waley. Copyright 1919, 1941 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., renewed 1947 by Arthur Waley. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Constable and Company, Inc./“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Copyright 1923, renewed 1951 by Wallace Stevens. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Faber and Faber, Ltd./ “The Wood-Weasel” from The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore. Copyright 1944 and renewed 1972 by Marianne Moore. Reprinted by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., and Faber and Faber Ltd./“Into the Dusk-Charged Air” from Rivers and Mountains by John Ashbery. Copyright © 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966 by John Ashbery. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc./“The Painter” by John Ashbery. Copyright © 1956 by John Ashbery. Reprinted by permission./ “Sailing to Byzantium” from Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats. Copyright 1906 by The Macmillan Company, renewed 1934 by William Butler Yeats. “Who Goes with Fergus?” from Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats. Copyright 1928 by The Macmillan Company, renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats. Reprinted by permission of The Macmillan Company, Mr. M.B. Yeats, Macmillan Co. of London & Basingstoke, and Macmillan Co. of Canada./“The White Horse,” “Trees in the Garden,” and “Humming-bird” from The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto and F. Warren Roberts. Copyright © 1964, 1971 by Angelo Ravagli and C.M. Weekley, Executors of the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Reprinted by permission of The Viking Press, Laurence Pollinger Ltd. and the Estate of the late Mrs. Frieda Lawrence./“The Boy” and “From a Childhood” from Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by M.D. Herter Norton. Copyright 1938 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright renewed 1966 by M.D. Herter Norton. Reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., and The Hogarth www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© Press, Ltd./“Cirque d’Hiver” from The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright 1940, © 1969 by Elizabeth Bishop. Reprinted with the permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc./“Somnambule Ballad” and “Tree, Tree” translated by William Logan, from Selected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca. Copyright 1955 by New Directions Publishing Corp./“This Is Just To Say,” “The Locust Tree in Flower,” and “Between Walls” from Collected Early Poetry by William Carlos Williams. Copyright 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp./“No One Spoke” by Ryota and “Wild Goose” by Issa, haiku from One Hundred Poems from the Japanese translated by Kenneth Rexroth. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Pierpont Morgan Library for permission to reprint the following holographs: John Keats, Sonnet XII Morgan Catalogue: MA 658 (V-10-C); Walt Whitman, Ode to Washington Morgan Catalogue: MA 627 V-2 11B; and George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan Morgan Catalogue: MA 56-57 (V-8-A 0.5) www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© To Arlene Ladden www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© Acknowledgments Much of what is best in this book is due to Arlene Ladden, who gave a great deal of her time to helping me write and organize it. My other most important collaborators were the students at PS 61 in New York and the other children whose work is included here. At PS 61 the continuing good will of the principal, Jacob Silverman, was a great help to me, as were the interest and co-operation of the teachers I worked with there—Les Bowman, Diane Fay, and Jean Pitts. Sarah Spongberg used some of my ideas to teach children to read and write poetry at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans and at Friends’ Academy in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, as did Mary Bowler at St. Mary’s Secondary School in Swaziland. I am grateful to them for the poems they helped inspire their students to write and for the evidence they gave me that this way of teaching could work for other teachers and in other kinds of schools. Pierette Fleutiaux made it possible for me to work with her high-school students at the Lycée Français in New York. For other help and encouragement I am grateful to Pat Dreyfus, Cheri Fein, Emily Dennis Harvey, Ellen Hodge, Debby Mayer, Marilynn Meeker, Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, McKay Sundwall, Julie Whitaker, Galen Williams, and Michael Wood. Kenneth Koch New York City February, 1973 www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction: Teaching Great Poetry to Children Introduction #2 (1990) TEN LESSONS Chapter One. WILLIAM BLAKE The Tyger Chapter Two. ROBERT HERRICK The Argument of His Book Chapter Three. JOHN DONNE A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Chapter Four. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Songs Chapter Five. WALT WHITMAN from Song of Myself sections 1 and 2 Chapter Six. WALLACE STEVENS Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Chapter Seven. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS This Is Just to Say; The Locust Tree in Flower; Between Walls Chapter Eight. FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA Romance Sonambulo; Arbole, Arbole Chapter Nine. JOHN ASHBERY Into the Dusk-Charged Air Chapter Ten. ARTHUR RIMBAUD Voyelles ANTHOLOGY Introduction to the Anthology AUTHOR UNKNOWN Cuckoo Song The Irish Dancer DANTE ALIGHIERI Sonetto / Sonnet www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© AUTHOR UNKNOWN The Demon Lover Lord Randal SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Sonnet CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Passionate Shepherd to His Love WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Over Hill, over Dale Under the Greenwood Tree Aubade Orpheus with His Lute Sonnet ROBERT HERRICK Delight in Disorder How Violets Came Blew How Roses Came Red How Marigolds Came Yellow GEORGE HERBERT Heaven THOMAS CAREW A Song WILLIAM BLAKE The Lamb The Sick Rose SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Ode to the West Wind JOHN KEATS Ode on a Grecian Urn ROBERT BROWNING Home Thoughts, from Abroad WALT WHITMAN from Song of Myself section 15 from Song of Myself section 26 EMILY DICKINSON I Never Saw a Moor GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS God’s Grandeur ARTHUR RIMBAUD Fleurs / Flowers WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Who Goes with Fergus? GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Coeur Couronne et Miroir / Heart Crown and Mirror D. H. LAWRENCE The White Horse www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© Trees in the Garden Humming-Bird RAINER MARIA RILKE Der Knabe / The Boy Aus einer Kindheit / From a Childhood WALLACE STEVENS Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Bantams in Pine-Woods MARIANNE MOORE The Wood-Weasel LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR Je veux dire ton nom / I Want to Say Your Name ELIZABETH BISHOP Cirque d’Hiver GABRIEL OKARA Piano and Drums FRANK O’HARA Les Étiquettes Jaunes A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island JOHN ASHBERY The Painter Four Chinese Poems CH’U YUAN In Praise of the Orange Tree AUTHOR UNKNOWN Oath of Friendship PO CHU-I Eating Bamboo Shoots HAN-SHAN Cold Mountain Poems Five Japanese Poems SHIKI What a wonderful day! ISSA Wild goose RYOTA No one spoke BASHO The old pond With what voice Two African Tribal Poems The Magnificent Bull Song for the Sun That Disappeared behind the Rainclouds Three American Indian Poems Dawn Song www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© Love-Charm Song The War God’s Horse Song SOME POEMS FROM SWAZILAND Afterword (Mainly for Teachers) Bibliographical Note About the Author www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? www.methodnew.comwww.methodnew.com ©© Introduction TEACHING GREAT POETRY TO CHILDREN Giraffes, how did they make Carmen? Well, you see, Carmen ate the prettiest rose in the world and then just then the great change of heaven occurred and she became the prettiest girl in the world and because I love her. Lions, why does your mane flame like fire of the devil? Because I have the speed of the wind and the strength of the earth at my command. Oh Kiwi, why have you no wings? Because I have been born with the despair to walk the earth without the power of flight and am damned to do so. Oh bird of flight, why have you been granted the power to fly? Because I was meant to sit upon the branch and to be with the wind. Oh crocodile, why were you granted the power to slaughter your fellow animal? I do not answer.