Joyce kilmer biography poems lesson

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Trees and Other Poems (1913) | Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918)

 Suggestions

• Read this one aloud with younger children.
• Memorize the poem. You can read how we suggest approaching this on our copying page.
• Choose one stanza to copy and illustrate.
• The tree is personified in the poem. Select two places that show personification.
• Choose a tree to study through all four seasons.

Additional Resources

Poetry Dictionary for Kids
Terms, literary devices, and more.

Books

Tree in the Trail  by Holling C. Holling
Great tie-in! Check out our go-along activities.

First Book of Trees
Public domain title.

The Science of Drawing Trees
Another public domain title that will help with tracking a tree through the seasons.

Units & Lesson Plans

Free Nature Studies: Our Wonderful World
These are the tree sections from our free nature study with resour

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Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Alfred Joyce Kilmer studied at Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and Columbia University. He was the Vice President of the Philolexian Society, which now holds the annual “Alfred Joyce Kilmer Bad Poetry Contest.” Kilmer graduated in 1908 and began teaching in Morristown, New Jersey shortly after graduation. That same year, he married Aline Murray, also a poet. The Kilmers had five children.

In 1908, Joyce Kilmer began publishing poems, essays, and book reviews, and due to his success in publication, he gave up his teaching career and moved back to New York City with his family in June 1909. He worked on an edition of The Standard Dictionary, and upon the dictionary’s publication in 1912, joined the staff of The New York Times Review of Books and The New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Kilmer became a devout Catholic in 1913 after his daughter Rose was stricken with infantile paralysis. His faith was an important aspect of his poetry.

Kilmer joined the New York National Guard in 1917 to serve in World War I. He was killed in 1918 during the Second Battle of Marne.

–Christie Finn