read and write

Part 1: 8 points

After reading “To David, About His Education” and “The School Where I Studied,” please answer the following questions:

Regarding “To David, About His Education,”

1. What examples of “invisible things” does the poem offer? 

2. Look up “the law of excluded middle” What is it? What significance might it have for this poem? 

Regarding “The School Where I Studied,”

1. How old, roughly, would you guess the speaker is? How can you tell? 

2. Where does this poem take place? Why is the setting important?

3. The speaker says, “[I]n our innocence we thought it was only landscape we were seeing from the window.” What does the poem suggest they were actually seeing from the window? How do you know this?

Links: 

– Howard Nemerov – “To David About His Education:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52813/to-david-about-his-education

Yehuda Amichai – “The School Where I Studied”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/40662/the-school-where-i-studied