Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Analyzing Poetry [Pdf]
This resource explains how to analyze a poem for its subject, narrator, tone, diction, and more. "Open" and "closed" poems are defined. Explanation are provided for "metrical feet" and "rhyme scheme" in poetry. William Shakespeare's "My...
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: Women's Studies Database: Emily Dickinson Poems
This resource provides the text to more than one hundred poems by Emily Dickinson. It also includes an introduction with a little information about her poetry.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Read, Write, and Analyze Poetry (Haiku and Free Verse Poetry)
This tutorial focuses on poetry; it defines free verse and haiku, explains how to write each, and provides examples. It offers a slideshow which provides tips for beginners on how to read poetry, how to identify types of poetry, and how...
Other
Poetry Analysis for 10th Grade Language Arts
Choose from the poems, then complete the reading, discussion, and writing activities. A good wrap-up to a poetry unit.
TES Global
Tes: Poetry: Performing Poetry: "Touch" by Lewin
[Free Registration/Login Required] This downloadable module contains a PowerPoint lesson about how to read and perform the poem "Touch" by Hugh Lewin. A worksheet is provided that will guide students to help them reflect on the poem,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?
This seven-stanza poem gives advice to poets who are just starting out in their writing careers.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Bad Day
This single-stanza poem describes the bad day of an elf who has the job of a tailor.
TES Global
Tes: Lord of the Flies by William Golding: Write a Poem
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this assignment, students will write a twelve-line poem using quotations from the first chapter of William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Then students will draw a visual representation of the setting...
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Love Song
This poem describes the saving of a baby bird and analyzes what drew the desperate bird to her.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer Day
This single-stanza poem expresses that the act of paying attention to the little things in life is a form of prayer.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Blue Bowl
This poem expresses the grief surrounding the burial of the poet's cat.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: American Cheese
This poem describes the poet's love for American cheese.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
This poem shares the story of the poet wasting time by driving around on a snowy night.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Nights
This three-stanza poem explains that she really does not want anything other than rest.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
This is the original, online PDF text of the poem "To My Dear And Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: "Upon Julia's Clothes" by Robert Herrick
This is the original, online text of the poem "Upon Julia's Clothes" by Robert Herrick.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: "To Celia" by Ben Jonson
This is the original, online text of the poem "To Celia" by Ben Jonson.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Hymn of a Fat Woman
This poem shares some imaginary thoughts from the perspective of an obese woman.
Meadowbrook Press
Giggle Poetry: "Rules for the Bus" Poetry Theater: A Poem in Two Voices
This lesson includes a poem in two voices and is adapted from the poem by Eric Ode in Rolling in the Aisles, published by Meadowbrook Press. Young scholars will share the responsibility of reading lines of this poem about a boy who...
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Up and Down Poems
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage young scholars in writing up and down poems. An example of an up and down poem is provided.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Colorful Sensory Poems
This lesson allows students to explore color - both in literal and figurative terms. Students will read books about color, discuss the emotion involved with color, and incorporate color metaphors to write poems using the graphic...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: How to Make Poetry
Students learn how to write poetry through ten Writing Workshop mini-lessons. Students complete the graphic organizers provided while learning to notice details, write similes and metaphors, and create patterns in their writing.
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