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About Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Aide
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Here is what I do:
As a Classic Poetry Aide, I offer assistance in the following areas:(1) poetry from ancient to contemporary poetry, (2) scholarly and critical works about the poetry, (3) guidance in writing essays about poetry.

I answer questions about the poets and poetry most widely studied in high school and college English classes. I help with interpretations and direct you to online poetry analyses. I find web sources that offer information for students writing essays about poems.

Here is what I do not do:
I do not help with creative writing issues, such as critiquing poems or offering ideas for poems. I do not offer my personal opinion about poets and poems.



 
   

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Topic: Poetry



Expert: Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Aide
Date: 4/15/2008
Subject: Line from a poem Little Orphan Annie (I think)

Question
Please help. This has been haunting me for years. I am trying to find a poem with the line "And then they pulled the kivers up for a long winter's night."  I used to read this poem to my Nana as a child. My Nana is long gone and I just lost my father recently and for some reason I NEED to find that poem.  I will be forever grateful. Thank you.

Answer
Dear Lorraine,
Here's copy of James Whitcomb Riley's "Little Orphant Annie":  http://www.victorianhalloween.com/oct/library/annie/Little-Orphant-Annie.shtml

There is a line featuring "kivvers":  "His Mammy heerd him holler, an' his Daddy heerd him bawl, / An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wuzn't there at all!"

Hope this helps.  

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