Some questions and a poem to read...

First tell me about your Crucible Project.
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Then read the poem below. At the bottom of this post there is a link that says "comments" click the link and leave a comment about your thoughts on the poem.
What do you think the title might be? Who wrote it? Why? What does it mean?

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I DWELL in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago,
And left no trace but the cellar walls,
And a cellar in which the daylight falls,
And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow.

O'er ruined fences the grape-vines shield
The woods come back to the mowing field;
The orchard tree has grown one copse
Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops;
The footpath down to the well is healed.

I dwell with a strangely aching heart
In that vanished abode there far apart
On that disused and forgotten road
That has no dust-bath now for the toad.
Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart;

The whippoorwill is coming to shout
And hush and cluck and flutter about:
I hear him begin far enough away
Full many a time to say his say
Before he arrives to say it out.

It is under the small, dim, summer star.
I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me--
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree
Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar.

They are tireless folk, but slow and sad,
Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,--
With none among them that ever sings,
And yet, in view of how many things,
As sweet companions as might be had.

More of the Fireside Poets

Good morning,
   We don't have all day here. I have a cool video about Manhattan I want to show you after we get this done.

1. Read 1-2 of these poems. (See links below) 
2. Paste the URL into Awesome Hightlighter.
3. Highlight some of the lines about NATURE in the poem you chose.
4. Paste the URL in your EJ. (English Journal)
5. WRITE what you think the poet thought about nature.

"Voices of the Night"

"Thanatopsis"

“The Bridge”

“A Gleam of Sunshine”

“To a Cloud”

“Snowbound”