Credo
Robert Fulghum
All I really need to know
about how to live and what to do and how to be
I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top of the gradute-school mountain,
but there in the sandpile at Sunnday School.
There are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life-
learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world,
watch out for traffic,
hold hands,
and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and the plant goes up
and nobody really knows how or why,
but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice
and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup–they all die.
So do we.
And then remember the ****-and-Jane books
and the first word you learned-
the biggest word of all-LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.
Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Think what a better world it would be if
we all-the whole world-
had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon
and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.
Or if all governments had as a basic policy
to always put things back where they found them
and to dean up their own mess.
And it is still true,
no matter how old you are-
when you go out into the world,
it is best to hold hands and stick together.
Questions:
1.Who is speaking in the poem?
The speaker speaking in the poem is an adult talking about his childhood.
2.What is the tone of the poem?
The poets tone towards to the poem are youth, innocent, and sadness.
3.To whom is the poet speaking?
4.What is the setting of the poem?
5.What does the poem take place?
6.What mood is evoked by the poem?
7.Does the point of view change during the poem?
8.How does the poem make you feel?
9.What is the poet attempting to say? What insight, truth, moment of observation emerges from the poem?
Can you please help me answer those questions and see if i did those two right? Thank you
Also, do you know what is a great way to have a great understanding poetry? Thank you
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1. The speaker is an adult who has experienced life.
2. the tone is one of wisdom, through liefs lessons.
3. The poet is speaking to people who to anyone who is willing to grasp this basic understanding.
4. The settting is the future
5. The poem takes place in the past
6. The mood somber, peacefull, warm.
7. The point of view shifts when compairing the attitudes of children and the behavior of selfish governments
8. The poem makes me feel happy and sad. Happy for the warm yet true compairason and sad for the the was society truly is. Selfish and currupt in nature.
9. The poet is attempting to remind us of how as children we followed rules, respected, and loved one another. What he observes is that, people forget the past and draws a picture to remind us that the lessons we’ve learnt should not be forgotten.
the best way to understand poetry is to read various forms and get to know the author. Knowing the author gives you a better understanding of their mind set and what point there attempting to get across.
Good luck to you.