Introduce your class to ekphrastic poetry with an exercise that asks them to examine Edward Hooper's painting House by the Railroad and Edward Hirsch's poem "Edward Hopper and the House By the Railroad." After a close reading of the two...

Students read and examine slides and lithographs of selected Hopper creations. They participate in teacher led discussions of these works of art and participate first hand as a commercial artist. They go out into their community,...

Learners analyze Edward Hopper's painting and Hirsch's poem to explore the types of emotion generated by each work. For this literary and art analysis lesson, students discuss how Hopper establishes tone and analyze Hirsch's use of...