This link will take you to Holicong's literary magazine.  Our online site contains the works of very talented poets, storytellers, and artists.

Jeff Tweedy has turned American poet Carl Sandburg's "Theme in Yellow" into an airy, idyllic folk song that will appear on Brooklyn musician David Nagler's upcoming tribute album, Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems. The original poem describes a midwestern Halloween and is filled with images of "prairie cornfields / Orange and tawny gold clusters" and children "singing ghost songs / And love to the harvest moon" while gathered around a pumpkin (or someone pretending to be a pumpkin), who serves as the poem's speaker.

Speaker, Tone, Mood, and Theme. Read the text of the poem as you listen to the audio.  Analyze and evaluate what the speaker says and what the mood and tone of the poem are.  Then, click on the next link, and look at an illustrated version of the poem, and determine if you think the message, mood, and tone are different than you originally thought!

Speaker, Tone, Mood, and Theme. Could it be that “The Road Not Taken” is not nearly as celebratory as middle school teachers and car commercials have been making it out to be? Nathan Gelgud captures the ideas and tone of the poem, its resignation, humor, and beauty, in an illustrated take on Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” To complete the analysis in its entirity first, go to the link abouve this one and to find the text and audio of the poem.  Analyze and evaluate what the speaker says and what the mood and tone of the poem are.  Then, click back on this link, and look at an illustrated version of the poem, and determine if you think the message, mood, and tone are different than you originally thought!