"Mr. Birkway bounded around the room as if the opportunity to teach us was his notion of paradise. He read the poem be e. e. cummings titled 'the little horse is newlY' and the reason why the only capital letter in the title is the Y at the end of newlY is because Mr. Cummings liked to do it that way.
'He probably never took English,' Phoebe said.
To me the Y looked like the newly born horse standing up on his thin legs.
The poem was about newlY born horse who doesn't know anything but feels everything. He lives in a 'smoothbeautifully folded' world. I liked that. I was not sure what it was, but I liked it. Everything sounded soft and safe. " (p.123)
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On pages 181 and 182, Mr. Birkway shares a poem by Longfellow: "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls". Phoebe and Sal and their classmates share their reactions. Read the poem. What are your reactions?
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