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You've worked hard on your "close reading", learning how to support your ideas using evidence from the text, and reading poetry aloud. Let's complete this lesson with some enjoyable music! Be sure to listen to both versions below.

This poem is so famous it has even been turned into music! Any song with lyrics is really poetry that is being sung. Here, the famous male choir from Vancouver, Chor Leoni, is singing the poem. This choir has been around since 1992 and even has several CDs available. Some of their songs are serious and some are really fun. This is a "serious" song. Can you hear and imagine the horse stopping in the woods? Can you picture the snow gently falling in the quiet? Listen to a couple minutes - more if you like.

Here is a less "formal" version of the poem put to music. It is amazing how one poem can be presented so differently through music. Enjoy!