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Always they return home safely, like blind men who know it is morning by feeling shadows.  \nAnd always they wake up as themselves again. That’s why I want to say something astonishing like: Our hearts are leaving our bodies.  \nOur hearts are thirsty black handkerchiefs flying through the trees at night, soaking up the darkest beams of moonlight, the music  \nof owls, the motion of wind-torn branches. And now our hearts are thick black fists flying back to the glove of our chests.  \nWe have to learn to trust our hearts like that. We have to learn the desperate faith of sleepwalkers who rise out of their calm beds  \nand walk through the skin of another life.  \nWe have to drink the stupefying cup of darkness and wake up to ourselves, nourished and surprised.  \nThe Coming of Wisdom with Time  \nWilliam Butler Yeats  \n(1865 – 1939)  \nthough leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;  \nNow I may wither into the truth.  \nSecond Six Weeks – 2013-2014 A Work of Artifice  \nMarge Piercy  \n(b. 1936)  \nThe bonsai tree in the attractive pot  \ncould have grown eighty feet tall  \non the side ofa mountain till split by lightning.  \nBut a gardener carefully pruned it. It is nine inches high.  \nEvery day as he  \nwhittles back the branches the gardener croons, It is your nature  \nto be small and cozy, domestic and weak; how lucky, little tree, to have a pot to grow in. With living creatures one must begin very early to dwarf their growth:  \nthe bound feet, the crippled brain, the hair in curlers the hands you love to touch.  \nThe Possibility  \nJames Fenton  \n(b. 1949)  \nThe lizard on the wall, engrossed, The sudden silence from the wood Are telling me that I have lost The possibility of good.  \nI know this flower is beautiful And yesterday it seemed to be.  \nIt opened like a crimson hand.  \nIt was not beautiful to me.  \nI know that work is beautiful.  \nIt is a boon. It is a good.  \nUnless my working were a way Of squandering my solitude.  \nAnd solitude was beautiful When I was sure that I was strong. I thought it was a medium In which to grow, but I was wrong.  \nThe jays are swearing in the wood.  \nThe lizard moves with ugly speed.  \nThe flower closes like a fist.  \nThe possibility recedes.  \nUnveiling  \nLinda Pastan  \n(b. 1932)  \nIn the cemetery a mile away  \nfrom where we used to live my aunts and mother, my father and uncles lie in two long rows almost the way they used to sit around the long planked table at family dinners.  \nAnd walking beside the graves today, down one straight path and up the next, I don’t feel sad  \nfor them, just left out a bit as if they kept  \nfrom me the kind of grown-up secret they used to share back then, something I’m not quite ready yet to learn.  \nEven If You Weren’t My Father  \nCamillo Sbarbaro  \n(1888-1967)  \nFather, even if you weren’t my father,  \nwere you an utter stranger, for your own self I’d love you.  \nRemembering how you saw, one winter morning, the first violet on the wall across the way, and with what joy you shared the revelation; then, hoisting the ladder to your shoulder, out you went and propped it to the wall.  \nWe, your children, stood watching at the window.  \nAnd I remember how, another time, you chased my little sister through the house (pigheadedly, she’d done I know not what) . But when she, run to earth, shrieked out in fear, your heart misgave you,  \nfor you saw yourself hunt down your","cbCait4euggVUC2e","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait4euggVUC2e","pdf",223726,"English","# Poems for Poetry Responses\n## For the Sleepwalkers\n## The Coming of Wisdom with Time\n## Second Six Weeks – 2013-2014 A Work of Artifice\n## The Possibility\n## Unveiling\n## Even If You Weren’t My Father\n## Toads\n## The Writer","[{\"question\":\"What central image does Edward Hirsch use in “For the Sleepwalkers”?\",\"answer\":\"He focuses on sleepwalkers’ faith in an invisible path, where hearts “leave” the body and move through night imagery. The poem emphasizes returning home safely and waking as oneself again.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Yeats describe the shift from youth to truth in “The Coming of Wisdom with Time”?\",\"answer\":\"Yeats contrasts the abundance of leaves in youth with the single root beneath them. 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