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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Glück, Louise. The Wild Iris. The Ecco Press, 1992.

• The first poem, “Wild Iris,” begins on page 1.

• “Wild Iris” is told from the perspective of the iris.

• The iris, speaking to death, refers to it as “the end of [her] suffering” (1).

• The iris describes the sounds of pine branches and then silence.

• The sun weakens and the earth dries.

• The iris speaks of the pain of being conscious of one’s death.

• The iris says, “[T]hen it was over: that which you fear” (1).

• The iris can hear what sounds like “birds darting in low shrubs” (1).

• The iris, unlike people, are conscious in their dormant stage.

• The iris refers to people as those “who do not remember passage from the other world” (1), and assures them that they will be reborn.

• “Matins” (#1) begins on...

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