Poem Study: Summer in the South

Let’s read a poem and study it together!

Not sure how to study a poem? Here are some ideas! Choose one or all of these:

1. Read aloud and enjoy the poem
2. Neatly write out your favorite stanza for handwriting practice or…
3. Copy and paste the poem into your word processor and print it out
4. Draw a picture about the poem

5. Underline words in the poem that describe what the author sees, feels, tastes, smells, or hears.

6. Read more about the author’s life
7. Share with someone you love <3

Summer in the South

The Oriole sings in the greening grove
As if he were half-way waiting,
The rosebuds peep from their hoods of green,
Timid, and hesitating.
The rain comes down in a torrent sweep
And the nights smell warm and piney,
The garden thrives, but the tender shoots
Are yellow-green and tiny.
Then a flash of sun on a waiting hill,
Streams laugh that erst were quiet,
The sky smiles down with a dazzling blue
And the woods run mad with riot.

~Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906)

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