For Tuesday: Selected Poems from Songs for the Open Road (see below)

For Tuesday's class, I want you to read the following poems:

* "The Land of Beyond," pages 8-9

* Roadways," pages 9-10

* Highway," page 11

* The Sacred," page 12

* The Road Not Taken," page 13

* "Acquainted With the Night," page 14

* "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," page 15

* "Escapist--Never," page 18

Then, choose ONE of them to answer the following questions:

Q1: What is the controlling metaphor of the poem? For example, is it something like, "life is like a dream," or "a car is like your soul," etc.? Explain how the poem develops this basic metaphor through one of the lines of the poem. Why does this change the way we understand or experience this basic metaphor?

Q2: Discuss a line in the poem that doesn't make immediate sense. Or, a line that seems to mean one thing, but after re-reading it, could also mean something else. Explain how we might read and understand this line, and what makes the line confusing or ambiguous (with more than one meaning).