Verse Assignments

A Gathering Of Poems Written Over Landis?S Teaching Life Verseassignments Reflects Themes That Include Classroom Quotidianroutine Daily Family Community And Faith Experience As Well Asresponse To Requests About Celebratory Occasions And Theachievements Of Colleagues. Landis Finds Much To Respect In Thedeeds Of Love That Surround Us And How The Meaning Of Life Can Beenhanced When It Is Expressed In The Sound And Rhythm Of Verse.From His Study And Teaching Of Poetry Landis Is Often Engaged Bypoetic Forms And Enjoys The Discipline Of Stricter Rhymes Andmeters In Older Forms. While Verse Assignments Contains Examples Ofthese Landis Enjoys As Well The Freedom From Restraint And Thecolloquial Vocabulary And Informal Manner Of Ordinary Speech.Landis Comes To Poetry Writing With The Pleasant Experiences Givenhim By The Teachers Of His Lifetime. Memorizing Poems Began At Anearly Age And He Has Continued To Enjoy The Richness Of Poeticlanguage From Chaucer And Milton And Shakespeare?S Inimitable Poemsand Plays To Selections From Present Times.