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I was also in Miss Raleigh's English Class. I remember having to memorize poems by:
Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven" and "Annabelle Lee"
Elizabeth B. Browning - "How Do I Love Thee"
Joyce Kilmer - "Trees"
Ernest Hemingway - "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Henry W. Longfellow - "Paul Revere's Ride"
And reading the story of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by
Washington Irving.
As someone else mentioned, we did learn "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, and I wondered why we needed to know that, but lately I've seen it printed on several obituaries, so maybe she was preparing us for that!
There is another poem by W. B. Yeats that we probably
should have learned entitled "When You Are Old." Check it out.
Even though I lived just out of Whitesburg at the foot of the
mountain, I rode the bus with the Cumberland River Students, a big nice plush Greyhound bus no less. Miss
Raleigh rode the bus with us, and if there was any courting
going on she would get up and announce, that there would
be no rubbernecking going on on her bus.
See, Larry, I can still remember a few things, even if I can't remember much about our senior trip, so maybe I'm not completely hopeless after all!
