Write the dialogue that you think might have occurred between the fifth and sixth stanzas.

Compose a poem about the most unusual conversation in which you have ever participated, then describe why it was unusual.

Re-write "Chocolates" as prose. Does reading the poem as prose change its meaning or effect? How?

Think of a famous writer that you would like to visit. What would you talk to him or her about? Write a dialogue of your conversation.

After reading a few chapters from Simpson's autobiography The King My Father's Wreck and completing biographical research on Chekhov, write a poem in which Chekhov visits Simpson.

Simpson himself has written that "Chocolates" is a poem about happiness, specifically "the delight we feel when we are able to express our happiness to another person." After defining what happiness means to you, locate the points in...