Voices

When I was ten-years-old my cousin brought me to a movie called The Dead Poets Society. In it, the teacher, Mr. Keating, recites part of Walt Whitman's O Me! I Life! to his students. In this poem Whitman suggests that life is a "powerful play," and that we each may "contribute a verse." It took me some years to understand Whitman's meaning, but that line has resonated ever since, as has the movie - I'm a high school English teacher now - and I've been trying ever since to contribute my own verse. This is it. So please, read and enjoy, and I hope you too are inspired to contribute a verse to this, the greatest of plays, life. 9781365155796 136515579X 87 BOOK Poetry http://books.google.com/books/content?id=fWhiDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Gregory Nelson
• | Publisher: Lulu.Com
• | Publication Date: May 17, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 86 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 136515579X
• | ISBN-13: 9781365155796