Assignment 1
Choose a poem and explicate it in terms of theme, audience, tone, point of view, diction, figurative language, rhyme and meter (if applicable).
- How does the style contribute to the meaning of the poem?
- What is the significance of the title?
- How does this poem speak to you as a reader?
Assignment 2
Poetry is often intimidating to young readers. Choose a particular poem and devise a lesson plan for teaching it. Address the elements of poetry listed above while keeping in mind accessibility and relevance to the reader.
- What type of assignment (creative or analytic) might you give for teaching that poet?
- Can you think of other poems not on this list that you would want to include and why?
**PLEASE MAKE SURE ASSIGNMENTS ARE IN SEPARATE DOCUMENTS.
Readings:
- Shakespeare sonnets:
- Robert Frost “Design”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The Road Not Taken”
- Emily Dickinson “Faith is a fine invention”, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “I heard a fly buzz when I died”
- Walt Whitman“Oh Captain! My Captain!”, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
- Langston Hughes “Theme for English B”, “The Weary Blues”, “Harlem”
- Maya Angelou “Caged Bird”, “Phenomenal Woman”, “Still I Rise”
- Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”, “The Emperor of Ice Cream”
- Naomi Shihab Nye “Valentine for Ernest Mann”, “Famous”
- Billy Collins “On Turning Ten”, “The Lanyard”
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