Macmillan Education
Understanding Poetry
William Wordsworth's "Daffodils" provides young poets with an opportunity to examine how a poet can use powerful images and poetic devices to create vivid pictures in the minds of readers.
Curated OER
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Questions
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "I wandered lonely as a Cloud."
Curated OER
A Rose Is a Rose
Flowering learners explore the concept of figurative language as it relates to poems, songs, or creative written expression. In this creative writing lesson plan, they complete several phrases using similes, metaphors, and...
Soft Schools
Metaphor and Similes in Literature: A Challenge
After identifying the similes and metaphors in a series of lines from poems, individuals then explain what is being compared and the characteristics the two items share.
Curated OER
Know Your Poets
In this poets activity, students read short poems and then choose the correct poet that wrote it. Students complete 6 multiple choice questions.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: William Wordsworth
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of William Wordsworth including information on his life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Wordsworth is also provided.
English Verse
English Verse: William Wordsworth (1770 1850)
Full text of a number of Wordsworth's famous poems is available here, along with an abbreviated biography of his lengthy life.