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Poetry Unit

This page contains class activities, poems, directions for analyzing and explicating poetry, and instructions for writing a poetry analysis essay.

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Introduction to Poetry
Poetry Explication Directions
Poetry Analysis Worksheet

Literary Terms

Poetic Literary Terms presentation
Poetic Literary Terms Worksheet
Poetic Terms Practice

Figures of Speech
Review the presentation below. Take notes in your notebook, so you have the information for class. During class, you will be using the terms in order to analyze poems.
Figures of Speech presentation

Poetry Movements

Poetry Movements presentation

Poems

"Ode to a Nightingale" John Keats - audio
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" Robert Frost [pg. 509] - audio
"After Apple-Picking" Robert Frost [pg. 511] - audio
"since feeling is first" e.e. cummings [pg. 564] - audio
"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" 
William Shakespeare [pg. 573] - audio

*Note: page numbers refer to class textbook

How to Analyze Poetry - TP-CASTT

Watch the presentation below. Make sure to take notes in your notebook regarding the TP-CASTT strategy for analyzing poetry. You can start and stop the video as often as necessary in order to learn the information and take notes.
Once you have view the presentation, taken notes, and learned the concept of TP-CASTT, take a short quiz (below).
TP-CASTT Quiz

Meter and Rhythm in Poetry

Meter & Rhythm Worksheet
Meter & Rhythm Activity

How to Write Poetry

How to Write an Alliteration Poem

Poetry Unit Test - Study Guide

Poetry Explication and Analysis Essay

Resources

TP-CASTT Worksheet

Poems

"Do not go gentle into that good night" Dylan Thomas
"Dover Beach" Matthew Arnold
"Dulce et Decorum Est" Wilfred Owen
"Let America Be America Again" Langston Hughes
"Mending Wall" Robert Frost
"My Last Duchess" Robert Frost
"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" Emily Dickinson
"The Colonel" Carolyn Forche
*Note: Parent permission to use poem for assignment is required for "The Colonel" PRIOR to viewing the poem. (Look it up on your own to show your parents. The link does not work.)
"The Second Coming" William Butler Yeats
"To His Coy Mistress" Andrew Marvell

Essay

Essay Instructions
The outline has been shared with each student via his/her BASD Google Drive.
Outline Graphic Organizer
Outline Rubric
Essay - Student Model
Handout - Revise Essay
Essay Rubric

Writer

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