This introduction to a new collection of John Haines' poetry by poet and critic Dana Gioia surveys Haines' work and includes the poem, "The Flight."

After analyzing examples of contemporary youth poetry as well as the poetry of Langston Hughes, students will use the Internet to conduct research on how events in the world have shaped Hughes' work. They will cite specific examples that...

Smithsonian in the Classroom presents The Music in Poetry. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package for exploring the rhythms in poetry. Includes background information, lesson plan extensions, student handouts, examples...

Smithsonian in the Classroom presents The Music in Poetry. Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package for exploring the rhythms in poetry. Includes background information, lesson extensions, student handouts, examples of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson for comparing parent/child relationships using poems by a variety of English Literary Heritage poets and Acts I-III of King Lear. It includes parent/child lessons and...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to understand and explore different types of poetry.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave a voice, in her poems, to many of those oppressed by contemporary injustice: child laborers, the poor, and the enslaved. In this lesson plan, students will give these voices dramatic form, using the...

Electronic text of Thomas Palgrave's book, "The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language". There are several ways to find the poem that you want to study: by author, by title, by first line, and by...

This is a detailed course assignment where students are asked to choose a poem from those provided and prepare an analysis of it prior to presenting it to the instructor. Students are given guidelines for an essay up to 3 pages long, and...

This two-page PDF includes a Poetry Analysis format using the acronym TP--CASTT. It explains how to evaluate a poem. It is followed by the blank form for students to use when analyzing a poetry.

This website offers links to a plethera of historical and classical poetry from around the world. It is intended to be "a representative 'Best of'" each section to encourage further reading. It includes translated Rune poems, Poetic...

This site is actually meant for teachers but students will find much of it useful, too. The writer, a teacher, describes her lesson plan for teaching children to write poetry. While her lessons are meant for elementary students, as she...

Well detailed discussion of the use of the couplet in poetry. A number of different kinds of couplets are defined and explained (short couplet, split couplet, heroic couplet, Alexandrine couplet, Qasida), and a "How To" section suggests...

Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...

A collection of descriptive and metaphorical poems about baseball, including poems by Mae Swenson, John Updike, and William Carlos Williams, and, of course, "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer.

When teaching about an event such as the Holocaust, using varying teaching methods helps to bring a deeper understanding of the human victims of this atrocity. Students will read seven poems pertaining to the Holocaust, view artwork...

Guide for exploring the poetry of Emily Dickinson provides historical context, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit for teachers. Includes a radio show and transcript with poems cited from The Poems of Emily...

This lesson plan-tutorial uses "Beware do not read this poem" by Ismael Reed to teach students how to read and appreciate poetry.

Contains plans for a poetry lesson plan that asks students to write poems after brainstorming metaphors and other ideas as a group. Ideas are groups by different themes, like letters of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and...

Contains plans for eight lessons in a poetry unit that asks students to write poetry in various forms after reading models. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...

Contains plans for three lessons about love poetry that ask students to review the genre before writing their own. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...

This page is part of the Web of InfoCostaRica. The page gives an excellent summary of Costa Rican poetry from the 1800s and 1900s. Poets and their works are described. The page also included links to other information about Costa Rica.

Excellent lesson plan that requires students to work collaboratively to select parts of poetry and "perform" poems for the class. Uses the book "Berenstein Bears," but any children's book could be acceptable for the lesson plan.

This lesson teaches students to create an original poem based on select words and phrases from a prose piece. Also encourages students to model poetic forms after found poems.