"Young"

Anne Sexton, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1967, did not discover her poetic voice until she was an adult, but in this poem, she uses it to write about when she was young.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Poetry, poemcrazy, Nikki-Rosa, We Real Cool, Fast Break, Identity, Ego Tripping, Hanging Fire, odes, Sonnet 18, In Response to Executive Order 9066, Young, Poetry Cafe, poems by Nikki Giovanni
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  1. lonely
    lacking companions or companionship
    A thousand doors ago
    when I was a lonely kid
  2. wrinkle
    become crumpled or creased
    I lay on the lawn at night,
    clover wrinkling under me
  3. funnel
    a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening
    my mother's window a funnel
    of yellow heat running out
  4. smooth
    having a surface free from roughness or irregularities
    and the boards of the house
    were smooth and white as wax
  5. stalk
    a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant
    and probably a million leaves
    sailed on their strange stalks
  6. tick
    make a clicking sound
    as the crickets ticked together
  7. brand
    a recognizable kind
    and I, in my brand new body,
    which was not a woman's yet
  8. question
    uncertainty about the truth or factuality of something
    told the stars my questions
  9. heat
    a form of energy transferred by a difference in temperature
    and thought God could really see
    the heat and the painted light
  10. dream
    a cherished desire
    elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight
Created on Fri Sep 26 15:11:12 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Sep 26 16:41:55 EDT 2014)

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