The Stick-Together Families – Edgar Albert Guest
Read Edgar Albert Guest’s complete four-stanza textbook poem in original order before studying family unity, contrast, imagery, rhyme and appreciation.
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The Stick-together Families: Complete Poem
Read Edgar Albert Guest’s complete four-stanza textbook poem in original order before studying family unity, contrast, imagery, rhyme and appreciation.
Open article →The Stick-together Families: Circle at the Fireside
Explain why the united family circle is happiest, how the fireside gathering becomes the finest convention and what alone can break it.
Open article →The Stick-together Families: Separate Ways and Empty Joy
Trace how imagined wisdom, broken family ties, separate pursuits and strange company lead not to pleasure but to bitterness and empty joy.
Open article →The Stick-together Families: Return Home to Kin
Follow the movement from roaming after distant gladness to shared sibling fun, the sheltering home roof and the call to return for contentment.
Open article →The Stick-together Families: Poetic Devices and Appreciation
Learn personification, imagery, metaphor, alliteration, the four-stanza AABBCC rhyme pattern and a method for appreciating significant lines.
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