Free verse poetry is often regarded as poetry without structure, but in reality, it is a poetic form that adheres to its own poet's thought and breath patterns. Delve into the rules and famous examples of free-verse poetry with a short classroom presentation.

Concepts

free verse, poetry, poetic forms, poetic structure

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Prompt learners to find additional examples of free verse poetry from the listed poets, or to research other free verse poets
• Use one of the poems from the presentation as a basis for a copy-change poem, in which learners employ the same structure and different content for their poems; discuss whether or not the new poems are now free-verse poems

Classroom Considerations

• Some poems are difficult to read over the presentation's background images

Pros

• Lists the five categories of free-verse poetry, including phrase-reinforcing, phrase-breaking, word-breaking, word-jamming, and prose poems

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.5 RL.11-12.5