Is there a story or poem which you studying in school which sparked a lifelong

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   Anna Havenposted 11 years ago

   Is there a  story or poem which you studying in school which sparked a lifelong love of writing?
   
   Is there a particular story or poem that you studying in school that sparked  a lifelong love of writing? If there is why?

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   MickSposted 11 years ago

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   swati17posted 11 years ago

   Yes....The one I still remember .....from my school days,,,
   
   The muddlehead by Ogden Nash
   
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      Anna Havenposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I had never heard of this, thankyou for the link. I had a look and I can see why it stuck in you mind. Very skillful rhyming.

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   JimTxMillerposted 11 years ago

   Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man & the Sea

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   Joanne M Olivieriposted 11 years ago

   There wasn't one actual poem but a book with a .series of poems by James R Walker Sr. titled Speak Nature which my Mom gave me while I was grammar school.  I fell in love with poetry after reading this anthology.  It's an old book published in 1965.  I still have it

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   ahorsebackposted 11 years ago

   For me , it was a poem called "The wreck of the Hesperus" a poem of a ship wreck where the captain tied his daughter to the main mast of the ship to protect her from being thrown overboard ! ..Hawthorn ?

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      Joanne M Olivieriposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      ahorseback:
      I love that poem and it is by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who also happens to be a favorite of mine.

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   Anna Havenposted 11 years ago

   Thankyou all for answering   I asked  because when I read 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen  at school I  thought it was awe-inspiring. For me that was the point at which  I realised the huge  power of writing and what it could convey.

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   duffsmomposted 11 years ago

   No, for me it was a book that belonged to my father. I discovered it after he died. I must have been 9.  The Complete Works of Robert Service. I read through it, discovering poetry and it stayed with me. I wanted to be able to do that with words and started trying my hand at poetry very young.

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