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Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices
An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...
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Loc: Poetry 180: Eagle Plain
A poem about the eagle is shared within six, three-line stanzas. The poem allow the reader to look at the American symbol in a different way.
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Texas Gateway: How to Read and Analyze a Poem (English Iii Reading)
This lesson focuses on strategies for reading and analyzing a poetry. Reading poetry creates some interesting challenges because a poem uses lines and stanzas rather than paragraphs in order to create emotions and experiences. Figurative...
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Loc: Poetry 180: Love Poem With Toast
This four-stanza shares a poem that expresses what people want to avoid in order to enjoy life with a significant other.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Locals
This multi-stanza poem describes people who seem to "belong" in their local setting.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Once Upon a Time There Was a Man
This single-stanza poem shares a poem in the form of a fairy tale.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Gretel
In this poem, a female fairy tale stereotype from the story "Hansel and Gretel" is examined within twelve stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fight
This two-stanza poem describes a couple's different opinions about their lives in Florida.
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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.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Gratitude to Old Teachers
In this two-stanza non-prose piece, the poet expresses gratitude for old teachers.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Hate Poem
In five stanzas, the poet reflects on items in her life that are detested.
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Loc: Poetry 180: My Moral Life
This three-stanza poem shares a message about speaking out in support of issues to get people elected who will make a difference.
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Loc: Poetry 180: In a Wall
This five-stanza poem shares a story of a boy helping his father retrieving a dog that had fallen down a well.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Halloween
This one-stanza poem gives a haunting message about the carving of a pumpkin during the season of Halloween.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Moon
This one-stanza poem describes a half-moon in an original way.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Birth Day
This three-stanza poem expresses his mother's joy in giving birth to her daughter.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Leaving the Island
This six-stanza poem shares the sadness in leaving an island home after a vacation of fun and relaxation.
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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.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
This single-stanza poem explains the painful process involved in making legal pads.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Her Head
In this non-prose, five-stanza piece, the poet describes her amazement of a woman who is carrying water on her head in Natal, South Africa.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Distances
This two-stanza poem describes a dark starry night in the beautiful outdoors.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Tour
This short two-stanza poem implies the importance of looking at things in two different ways.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Hand Shadows
This one-stanza poem describes a father demonstrating hand shadows while camping in a tent.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Courtesy of the Blind
In this seven-stanza poem, the poet writes about the experience of reading her poetry to the blind. She grows increasingly uncomfortable as they cannot see the images in her words, yet they are courteous to a fault and smile and applaud...