Favorite Summer Poem

Posted by Linda Sue Grimes Oct 3, 2007

Possibly most readers were outside enjoying the beautiful summer weather, but it is also possible that readers were not familiar with the poems.

Here is the poll question, followed by the choices: June brings the exalted season of summer, and poets have done their share of celebrating this fertile, fascinating season. Please vote for the poem you most admire: Dickinon's “I know a place where Summer strives," Whittier's “The Barefoot Boy,” Riley's “The Old Swimmin' Hole',” Frost's “The Oven Bird,” and Lowell's “Penumbra.”

Not to late to get acquainted with the poems

If you are not familiar with the poems that appeared in last summer’s poll, you have the opportunity to become acquainted with them through the following articles:

• Dickinon's “I know a place where Summer strives”
• Whittier's “The Barefoot Boy”
• Riley's “The Old Swimmin' Hole'”
• Frost's “The Oven Bird”
• Lowell's “Penumbra”

Please participate in the current poll which asks, “Of the following widely known poems by Robert Frost, which one do you most admire?” Your choices are: “The Road Not Taken,” “Stopping by Woods in a Snowy Evening,” “Birches,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and “Mending Wall.”

This poll is located below the blog on the Poetry homepage.