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Ted Nesbitt U.S. Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 9.92 Clarity of Response 10.0 Timeliness 9.97 Politeness 9.98 Total Questions 1027	I am a reference librarian and a former advanced placement English teacher. I can help identify poems, and I can define literary terms. In the area of literary criticism or analyses of specific poems, my experience and interests are these: Shakespeare, 18th- and 19th-century English literature, and American literature. I prefer short, specific questions on particular authors, poems, terms, or literary movements. I will not edit lengthy submissions or write students` assignments.
Theresa Harvard Johnson U.S. Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 10.0 Clarity of Response 10.0 Timeliness 10.0 Politeness 10.0 Total Questions 58	My area of expertise is in Christian writing. I can address ALL questions pertaining to poetry, spoken word and other forms of creative writing as ministry -- especially for those who believe they write by inspiration. I specialize in assisting these writers with understanding what it is they they do, why they do it, how to effectively use their writing in ministry, education, and outreach.
Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc U.S. Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Knowledgeability 9.96 Clarity of Response 9.96 Timeliness 9.96 Politeness 10.0 Total Questions 102	I can answer all questions on the writing of standard prose (rhyming) poetry, formatting, stanzas and rhyming issues. I have limited knowledge of the writing of freestyle poetry (non rhyming poetry--because I do not see it as poetry and therefore have no use for it) so I may or may not be able to help you with the writing of it, but can help with the formatting of it. My knowledge lies extensively in the workings of standard prose poetry. I CAN NOT help you (so PLEASE do not waste my time or yours) with the following types of questions: .....
Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian U.S. Available View Profile Ask A Question View Past Answers	Rating N/A (Expert Not Accept Rating) Total Questions 937	Please be aware that my field of expertise is "Classic Poetry." I do not study and write about Hallmark-Card type verse, doggerel, or pornographic versification. <p> I assist students/readers in understanding the poems most widely studied in high school and college English classes, for example, Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death," A. E. Housman's "Loveliest of trees," Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," W. B. Yeats</b>' "The Second Coming," Rabindranath Tagore's "The Journey," Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," Dana Gioia’s "Words." I direct students/readers to online poetry analyses and/or .....

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2009-11-06 childrens poem:

Teresa: The poet is George Cooper and the poem appears in many anthologies. I started to type the verses of "Come Little Leaves" for you, but I discovered that another Allexpert [in poetry] answered

2009-10-27 poem:

Dear Sharon: You haven't given me much to go on, but you are most likely thinking of this poem: The poet is James Whitcomb Riley, a writer of verse from Indiana. He spelled "orphan" as "orphant"

2009-10-23 identification of a poem:

Dear Gordon, This might be what you are looking for: http://www.scvsc.org/newsletter/JAN%2006%20MO.pdf Capturing a Snapping Schned by R. Myers Somebody said that it couldn’t be done But I

2009-10-19 birth and death:

Dear Sheryl: It's not really an epitaph, although some people MAY have used it as such. There has been an ongoing dispute about who actually wrote it. Some people argue that it is an Indian [as

2009-10-06 finding Walt Whitman poem:

Ana If you want everything that he has written then you need to buy a "Complete Works" not "Collected Works". Collections do not contain everything. It was published in Leaves of Grass in 1900. The