THIS IS NOT THE WARM UP! DO NOT DO THIS UNTIL YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION!
1) Write a few journal entries as if by one of the adults in the farmhouse.
2) Write a letter from the wife/mother to her parents or siblings living in a different city.
3) Assume the man or his wife has left a letter behind. What does it say?
4) Imitate the poet by rewriting several lines using your own ideas.
5) Make a list of what you think your room and/or possessions say about you and your life. Model your list on the format Kooser uses throughout the poem: tall man too, says the length of the bed/in an upstairs room. Make sure that your list contains specific details, like the poem does.
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