Everything you need to understand or teach The Greatest Grandeur by Pattiann Rogers.
Since her first poetry collection in 1981, Pattiann Rogers has built a reputation as one of America's most perceptive and thoughtful poets. Her works generally concern the natural world, with close observation of simple facts used to build the case for a higher order in the universe. This is certainly true of "The Greatest Grandeur," from Rogers's 1993 collection Geocentric. In this poem, Rogers explores a variety of things that people have considered the greatest...