1. What are your first reactions to this poem? (Like? Dislike? What kind of person wrote it? Theme? Lesson? Message?)
2. (1) The word "true" in line #5 most likely means: a) factually correct, b) truly personal and important, c) straight, d) believable.
3. (1) The word "theme", as it is used here, most likely means: a) what the poem is really about, b) what the poem relates to, c) another name for a piece of writing, d) none of the above.
4. Why do you think he spends so much of the poem explaining how he goes home?
5. What point do you think he is trying to make when he describes what he likes?

Due next Thursday:
"Go home and write
 a page tonight.
 And let that page come out of you—
 Then, it will be true."