Poems for Life of Pi

 

Rime of the Ancient Mariner--Coleridge

 

http://www.sangfroid.com/rime/

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12713

 

http://tcdsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/fisherl/mariner.htm

 

http://www.eriding.net/amoore/poetry/mariner.htm#7

 

http://www.song-of-the-siren.net/library/texts/Rhyme.pdf

 

The Lamb—The Tyger--Blake

 

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem181.html

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/blake/section1.html

 

http://www.bartleby.com/101/489.html

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/blake/section6.rhtml

 

“Dreams of the Animals” –Margaret Atwood

 

http://sadtomato.net/html/poems/beats.html#atwood3

 

“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop

 

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/fish_elements.html

(has 2 audio readings, one by the poet)

 

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bishop/bishop.htm

 

“The Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke

 

http://thebeckoning.com/poetry/rilke/rilke2.html

(there are many translated versions of this poem)

 

http://www.swans.com/library/art8/xxx089.html

 

http://www.swans.com/library/art8/xxx089.html

 

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/waltz_elements/waltz_wordorder.html

 

“The Black Snake” by Mary Oliver

 

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/stories/poem_act/black_snake.html

 

 

 

 

Poems for The Glass Castle

 

“The Drum” by Nikki Giovanni

 

http://www.eggplant.org/pdf/poetry/drum_giovanni.pdf

 

http://faculty.ssu.edu/~elbond/sec6.html

 

“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke

 

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/18045

(audio of author reading poem) List of other poems about fathers and parents