Mr. Kolade’s 8th grade English Weblog

Take your time, and read the following poem and answer the questions below it. (Read it multiple times if you have to.)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s [...]

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View Google Full Screen (If you scroll to about 11:56 into the video, you can hear Micheal Salinger perform it.)
How does the title of the poem (“Nietzsche’s Horse”) play into the meaning of the poem? Does this change what you initially thought of the poem? What is the speaker of the poem trying to [...]

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