Poems Response 3

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Read and analysis the poetry of “About the Poet” and “Epigrams: On my First Son”, then write a reading response. *(NOT SUMMARY)* about your feeling, opinion, are there any connection between the poems? or what do you think, or what interesting to you, or what did you understand from the poetry, or anything you want to write about. *(BUT BE SPECIFIC AND QUOTE FROM THE POEMS)*

Epigrams: On my First Son by Ben Jonson : The Poetry Foundation

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Epigrams: On my First Son

BY BEN JONSON

Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;

My sin was too much hope of thee, lov’d boy.

Seven years tho’ wert lent to me, and I thee pay,

Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.

O, could I lose all father now! For why

Will man lament the state he should envy?

To have so soon ‘scap’d world’s and flesh’s rage,

And if no other misery, yet age?

Rest in soft peace, and, ask’d, say, “Here doth lie

Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry.”

For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such,

As what he loves may never like too much.

About the Poet

Elizabeth Willis

About her: the air, warm as fact.

An imaginary boat heading off to hell, her foot pushing it offshore.

The sunlit bank, a mirage of the perfect past.

She was barking at the waves, thinking they barked first.

But this was not a river. It was Thursday, a word cast in lead.