1a. What does the statement, "Our earth is round," mean to the speaker?
2a. What is it that the speaker cannot imagine? What does the speaker see in her sky?
3a. What does the speaker say we must choose?
4a. What comparisons does the poem make? What contrasts does the poem make?
5a. To what extent do you agree with the ideas presented in this poem?
1b. What is the connection between this statement and what the speaker says it means?
2b. Why does the speaker see a different sky than the person he or she addresses sees?
3b. How does that choice affect each individual?
4b. Explain in your own words what this poem reveals about the idea that people can have "different points of view and both be right."
5b. What are your thoughts about how people can be different and yet still get along?
Lyric Poem. What emotions are revealed in this lyric poem?
Symbol. How does the poet use the sky to represent his or her ideas? What symbols does he or she use to represent "different points of view"? Go back and finish or modify your graphic organizer to show your final thoughts about symbols. Then identify symbols you might use to represent the different points of view that people might hold.
