What is a good poem, that is easy to understand?

Question

I am doing a project for my tenth grade english class and I need a poem that is simple and very easy to understand. It can be any type of poem or it can even be an appropriate song except for like Dr. Seus or any thing like that.

Answer 1

NOT BEOWULF!!!!

Hm... I like Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allen Poe. It's really short and simple.

Answer 2

I have the perfect poem for you. Actually, I've shared it on this forum today already. It's written by Robert Frost.

Fire and Ice

SOME say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

This poem means something different to a lot of different people. However, I believe it speaks to the ridiculous nature of the debate between faith and science. Whether God destroys the Earth with fire or man perishes due to a horrible Ice Age is irrelevant. We have enough injustice and hate in the world to consume us. Nothing needs to destroy the Earth, at our current rate, we'll destroy ourselves. Unless, we change our focus and readjust humanity's priority list. At the top of the list should be: greed, poverty, elitism, scientific understanding, equality, racial and religious tolerance, etc.

I hope this works for you.

Answer 3

On a blustery day we've been mushin' away over the Dawson path communicate of your chilly!, the wind it blowed for the duration of the parkas fold and stabbed like a pushed nail "The Cremation of Sam Magee" by using Robert provider i think He wrote countless others that are stunning.

Answer 4

OOh here this poem by Emily Dickinson.......
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Answer 5

Nothing more basic than the poem 'Fleas'

FLEAS

Adam
Had 'em