Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: National Poetry Month
This site offers extensive resources for teaching poetry. Find interviews with poets, ideas for poetry lessons, book lists, and ways to use poetry across the curriculum. There are also resources specifically for National Poetry Month....
TES Global
Blendspace: 8th Grade Poetry Unit
This thirty-three-part learning module provides a poetry unit designed for 8th graders. This blendspace provides videos, web resources, and reference sheets related to the study of eighth grade poetry content.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Peace Poems and Picasso Doves
This lesson plan develops "think-aloud strategies" for reading poetry and incorporating symbols of peace in poetry and art. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: A Primer of the Daily Round
This poem incorporates a message about all letters in the alphabet.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: Soccer Moms
This poem reminisces on everyday life among Cuban women in the midst of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
Contains plans for three lessons that ask learners to write shared acrostic poems in order to build classroom community. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Selected Poems of Charles Lamb
The University of Toronto offers selected poems of Chales Lamb, with notes on his life and works.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Charlotte Bronte (1816 1855)
Details of the life and works of Victorian writer Charlotte Bronte and her contributions to the world of poetry. Includes a bibliography and a link to her poem "On the Death of Anne Bronte".
University of Toronto (Canada)
Univ. Of Toronto: Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope
This site from the University of Toronto gives the full text of several of Alexander Pope's poems, including "The Rape of the Lock."
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Emily Jane Bronte (1818 1848)
A detailed biography of the poetry of writer Emily Bronte, with a synopsis of her collection of works.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Matthew Arnold (1822 1888)
A detailed essay on the works of Victorian author Matthew Arnold. Includes quotes from many of his famous works and an extensive bibliography. With links to many of his poems, including Dover Beach, Consolation, The Buried Life, and more.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: William Byrd (1543 1623)
A detailed and lengthy biographical summary of the life of Elizabethan composer William Byrd, who used poetry for the basis of many of his songs.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Wessex Poems & Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy's poetry is presented here from the 1898 edition. Includes a portrait of Hardy and an index of titles and first lines which link to the actual poems.
Poetry Foundation
Poetry Foundation: Dante Alighieri
A brief description of the works of Dante Alighieri and a link to his poem "Upon a day, came Sorrow in to Me," from the Last Canto of Paradiso.
Other
Modernist Poetry
Account of the rise of modernist Persian poetry and its influence on the imagist movement. Links to authors and works.
Eserver
E Server: Poetry Collection: Shakespeare: Sonnet 60
The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 60.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson
This well-organized site offers a useful discussion of all phases of his life and work. Suggested motivation and influences of the author's work. Includes critical discussion of several popular poems.
British Library
British Library: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads: A Close Reading
"Lyrical Ballads" grew out of the friendship and artistic collaboration between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this lesson, students will explore a number of the poems in light of Wordsworth's key philosophies,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reading, Writing, Haiku Hiking! Class Book of Picturesque Poems
Contains plans for five lessons about haiku using "One Leaf Rides the Wind" by Celeste Davidson Mannis as an introduction and model. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Old English Poetry" by Edgar Allan Poe
Text of the short story "Old English Poetry" by Edgar Allan Poe. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: I Have No Life but This
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "I Have No Life But This --", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Kelsey Weber and can access a printable version of this piece.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Hawaii Poets
Poets.org provides an overview of the poets from a particular state. The overview for Hawaii includes information on featured poets (W. S. Merwin and Garrett Hongo) and poems specifically about Hawaii.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Remembrance
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Remembrance", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Jeff Kiok and can access a printable version of this piece.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: The Beginning
A poem from Rupert Brooke, "The Beginning", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Bobby Allen and can access a printable version of this piece.
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