Fog

Students read Carl Sandburg's poem Fog http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1791.html. They also listen to him reciting the poem http://poetlaureate.il.gov/sandburg.cfm. After a discussion of Sandburg's use of imagery, students write their own poem using personification. Among the poems generated by this model is the following:

Earthquake by Kim Lam Ng* *award-winner

The Earth roars
and shakes
his mighty body,
opening a huge mouth
to swallow whole cities
like a man his morning eggs.
He wakes, yawns, settles back to sleep,
leaving us to our trembling prayers.