ClassFlow
Class Flow: Analyzing Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use poetic devices to analyze a poem of their choice from the Library of Congress.
University of Wisconsin
Univ. Of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Guide to Close Reading for Literary Analysis
This guide discusses how to approach analysis of a literary text, with the main focus being on the poem "Design" by Robert Frost. It explains how to examine the subject, the form, word choice or diction, and the theme. In each section,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet: Sylvia Plath
This lesson focuses on Sylvia Plath, her poetry, and how to analyze a poem. It features links to her biography; three of her poems: "Morning Song," "Lady Lazarus," and "Daddy"; an analysis of "Daddy"; and a poem anlaysis rubric. Students...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing, Reading, and Understanding Poetry
This tutorial focuses on different aspects of poetry: definitions, types of poetry with examples, and how to read, write, and analyze poetry. It includes three videos: a YouTube video of "El Guante" performing a free verse poem, a...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: How to Read a Poem
This resource aims to give A-level students a strategy and example for reading a poem. We asked a Cambridge student to read a poem as though they were going to write an essay on it, and to write down their thoughts as they went through...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet
This is an introduction to a modern poetry unit; it features links to poetry and technology standards and a list of key terms. The essential questions for the unit focuses on the characteristics of contemporary poetry, how poets use...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: The Poetics of Hip Hop
Students will analyze form in Shakespearean sonnets and hip-hop music. Concepts viewed in-depth include rhythm, form, diction, and sound. [Requires QuickTime 7].
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: What Makes Poetry? Exploring Line Breaks
This lesson explains how analyzing poetry is a many-layered process. This lesson introduces the special characteristics of poetry and leads young scholars through a look at how poems are structured and why. Includes links to poems and...
Other
Brock University: Critical Reading: A Guide
In addition to thoroughly exploring the purposes and functions of an analytical essay, this resource provides students with step-by-step instructions for reading and analyzing poetry, prose-fiction, and fiction. The site also offers...
Other
The Poetry of John Haines
This introduction to a new collection of John Haines' poetry by poet and critic Dana Gioia surveys Haines' work and includes the poem, "The Flight."
City University of New York
Brooklyn College: Melani: Emily Dickinson
This webpage is a handout for a course on Emily Dickinson's poetry. It features information about Dickinson's life, her poems, her style, and her themes including: the inner world; death; pain, separation, and ecstasy; love; God and...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Understanding the context of modernism is important for students before they analyze modernist texts themselves. To that end, this is a three-lesson curriculum unit: 1."Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry;" 2. "Thirteen Ways of...
City University of New York
Brooklyn College: Melani: Emily Dickinson: Death
This is Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death" followed by an analysis of the poem.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Robert Frost (1874 1963)
Critical analysis of numerous Frost poems by foremost literary critics like William Pritchard. This is a great resource for students learning how to analyze Frost's poetry.
Other
National Library of Ireland: Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
This video masterclass offered through the Yeats Collection from the National Library of Ireland gives insight into William Butler Yeats and his writing of "Sailing to Byzantium." Requires a broadband internet connection. You can also...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Stanley Kunitz
A biographical sketch of Kunitz, an article by him, and an analysis of several of his works. Also provides a picture.
TES Global
Tes: Follower: Seamus Heaney
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint lesson guides students through the analysis of a poem. The poem featured is "Follower" by Seamus Heaney.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Music From the Ashes
This is a self-guided learning unit on the topic of poetry. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, learning activities, and related literature. Learn how to analyze poetry, appreciate figurative language, and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost: Analysis [Pdf]
This is a two-page PDF of the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost with analysis including rhyme scheme and poetic devices. It also offers a list of websites for further analysis.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke
Learners examine the relationship of poetic form and content, shaped by alliteration, consonance, repetition, and rhythm, in two poems about fatherhood: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Conversation With Stanley Kunitz
An interview by Elizabeth Farnsworth with Stanley Kunitz, shortly after he was named poet laureate of the United States. In the course of the interview, Kunitz reads some of his poetry, and talks about what inspires his poetry.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Stanley Kunitz
A brief biography of Stanley Kunitz, who was known not only for his poetry, but for his unfailing support of young poets. This site includes the texts of several of his poems, as well as transcripts of several interviews and critical...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Models for Literary Analysis
Explore these links to see models for literary analysis including a model analysis of poetry. "Types of Papers: Literary Analysis" from Roane State OWL and "Deep Desires that Transcend Time" by Alyssa Ensminger, from Roane State OWL....
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Approaching Poetry
This lesson focuses on the how to approach the analysis of poetry. It provides a series of student activities such as having students read and compare a draft and the final version of William Blake's "Tyger" which is followed by a...
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