Poetry Recitation

As part of our Ambleside Online schooling, the kids are learning about poets and poetry. They learn 3 new poets each school year. This year, we started with Emily Dickinson. The four big kids are all memorizing this poem to recite for our fine arts co-op:

The Bluebird

by Emily Dickinson

Before you thought of spring

Except as a surmise

You see God bless his suddeness

A fellow in the skies

Of independent hues

A little weather worn

Inspiriting habiliments

Of indigo and brown

With specimens of song

As if for you to choose

Discretion in the interval

With gay delays he goes

To some superior tree

Without a single leaf

And shouts for joy to nobody

But his seraphic self!

Chloe, surprising us all, was the first to learn it. She begged me to video her recitation to show you all. Being the doting mother that I am, I obeyed.

For your listening pleasure, I present Chloe Clark: