I need poem explications for My Father and the Fig Tree by Naomi Shihab Nye thanks.?
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I found the poem at this website:\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/now/arts/nyepoems1.html\n\nThere are links above the poem that can take you to an interview with the poet done by Bill Moyers and lesson plans about the poem and others by this poet.\n\nI hope this helps you.
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Awesome poem! I like the way it flows, and how you put feeling into the poem. Kick-A**-Tic. Let me know if you write any more. ROCK ON!!
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I found the following website on google.com.  There are links to some of his poems in the box on the right side of the screen.
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I hope this helps you.\nhttp://www.dltk-bible.com/poems.htm
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you can type that in the google and get many places where you can get those. one of my favorite poetry website is \nwww.poetry.com\ndah you can share your poem and find hundreds of great poems there.
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He is telling of a woman with whom he knew as a child. She was a beautiful girl and grew into a lovely woman. He danced with her in school and realized that she had grown up.\nLater, as an adult, he read in the paper of her committing suicide by leaping out of a downtown hotel window. He was saddened by this of course.\nThe poem is him recalling her as a young girl and how he felt about her suicide.
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O.K.    I have searched and searched for this poem...Is there possibly a different title??? I ADORE and LOVE Leonard Cohen but I am at a loss on how to help you....I was hoping that someone else would step up because I was dieing to know the answer myself!!! I'm so sorry.
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I agree that <http://www.100words.net/entry/read_member_batch.cfm?entry_member=Laura%20A%20Hill&entry_batch=November&entry_year=2003> is the only site that talks about this poem.  Don't try pinkmonkey.com and the other sites.  I couldn't find the poem comments in their results.
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OK, I'll give it my best shot...\n\n* Who is the speaker or speakers in the poem, and what is the situation?\n\nThe speaker appears to be a military trainee, learning about the names of parts in (bolt, breech, saftey, etc. ) and functions of his rifle.\n\n* What basic contrasts are represented by the trainees and by the gardens?\n\nThere are several:\n"..eloquent gestures, Which in our case we have not got."\nNot much eloquent about cleaning a rifle...\n\n"If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms\nAre fragile and motionless"\nStrength vs fragility\n\n"Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards\nThe early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:\n          They call it easing the Spring"\nTwo different definitions of spring, one in the rifle, one a season.\n\nand more...\n\n* What statement does the poem make about war as it affects men and their lives?\n\nWar is about hard, cold things like rifles and all that goes with war, whereas the gardens represent beauty, silence, peace.\nThe gardens bring out the best in man, wars the worse.\n\nHope this helps!
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If you like poetry go to www.allpoetry.com It is free or try poeticempty.com
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Works Published\n\nFiction\n\nEast Wind, West Wind \nThe Good Earth \nSons \nThe Young Revolutionist \nAll Men Are Brothers \nThe First Wife and Other Stories \nThe Mother \nA House Divided \nHouse of Earth \nThis Proud Heart \nThe Patriot \nStories for Little Children \nOther Gods: An American Legend \nToday and Forever: Stories of China \nDragon Seed \nChina Sky \nThe Chinese Children Next Door \nThe Water-Buffalo Children \nTwenty-seven Stories \nThe Promise \nThe Story of Dragon Seed \nThe Dragon Fish \nThe Townsman: A "John Sedges" Novel \nPortrait of a Marriage \nChina Flight \nYu Lan: Flying Boy of China \nPavilion of Women \nFar and Near: Stories of Japan, China, and America \nThe Angry Wife \nPeony \nThe Big Wave \nThe Long Love \nKinfolk \nOne Bright Day \nGod's Men \nThe Hidden Flower \nBright Procession \nCome, My Beloved \nVoices in the House \nJohnny Jack and His Beginnings \nThe Beech Tree \nImperial Woman \nLetter from Peking \nChristmas Miniature \nAmerican Triptych: Three "John Sedges" Novels \nCommand the Morning \nThe Christmas Ghost \nFourteen Stories \nSatan Never Sleeps \nHearts Come Home and Other Stories \nThe Living Reed \nStories of China \nEscape at Midnight and Other Stories \nFairy Tales of the Orient \nDeath in the Castle \nThe Big Fight \nThe Little Fox in the Middle \nThe Water-Buffalo Children and the Dragon Fish \nThe Time is Noon \nMatthew, Mark, Luke, and John \nThe Beech Tree and Johnny Jack and His Beginnings \nThe New Year \nThe Three Daughters of Madame Liang \nThe Good Deed and Other Stories of Asia, Past and Present \nMandala \nThe Chinese Story Teller \nOnce Upon a Christmas \nThe Goddess Abides \nA Gift for the Children \nMrs. Starling's Problem \nAll Under Heaven \nWords of Love (poetry) \nThe Rainbow \nEast and West: Stories \nSecrets of the Heart: Stories \nThe Lovers and Other Stories \nMrs. Stoner and the Sea and Other Works \nThe Woman Who Was Changed and Other Stories \nThe Old Demon \nLittle Red \n\nNonFiction\n\nEast and West and the Novel: Sources of the Early Chinese Novel \nIs There a Case for Foreign Missions? (pamphlet) \nThe Exile \nFighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul \nThe Chinese Novel \nOf Men and Women \nWhen the Fun Begins \nAmerican Unity and Asia \nPearl Buck Speaks for Democracy \nWhat America Means to Me \nThe Spirit and The Flesh \nChina in Black and White: An Album of Woodcuts \nTell the People: Mass Education in China \nTalk About Russia with Masha Scott \nHow It Happens: Talk About the German People \nAmerican Argument \nThe Child Who Never Grew \nThe Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen \nMy Several Worlds: A Personal Record \nFriend to Friend: A Candid Exchange Between Pearl S. Buck and Carlos P. Romulo \nThe Delights of Learning \nA Bridge for Passing \nWelcome Child \nThe Joy of Children \nChildren for Adoption \nMy Mother's House \nThe People of Japan \nFor Spacious Skies: Journal in Dialogue \nTo My Daughters, With Love \nThe Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal \nChina As I See It \nThe Story Bible \nPearl Buck's America \nPearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook \nChina Past and Present \nA Community Success Story: The Founding of the Pearl Buck Center \nPearl Buck's Book of Christmas \n\nPlays\n\nFlight into China \nSun Yat-Sen: A Play \nThe First Wife \nA Desert Incident \nChristine \nThe Guide\n\n\nThat should get you started
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I love the one that is a poem about the monster under the bed and hobbes saves the day by just being there (cause the monster didn't know there was a tiger in the bed).  Best Line: "Hey wake up you stupid cretin! Are you gonna sleep while I get eaten!?!?!?"  I'll check my collection books and see if I can find page number for the rest of ya.
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I like the poem entitled Family by Mark Spencer.  You can find it at  http://www.dreamersreality.com/poems/read/11910/Mark_Spencer/Family/Family/.  Also, there is a poem called The Family Castle by Nancy Rakovszky you can find at netpoets.com.  Best of luck.
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Look in Falling Up or Where the Sidewalk Ends or any other collection of Shel Silverstein.  He gets outside the box when it omes to poetry.  You might also want to look at some of Carl Sandburg's works.
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The name of the poem is (My Garden—"His Garden") by Charles Haddon Spurgeon\n\nhttp://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons42.txt
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here you go. this will take you right to a lot of poems about beaches\n\nhttp://www.poemhunter.com/poems/beach/
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There are a lot of poems out there.  Could you be a little more specific in what you're looking for?