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Self knowlege.com: Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Website from SelfKnowlege.com attempts to connect the content of Robert Herrick poems to the expression, description, and meaning of human reality. Included is Herrick's poetry, biographical information, and links to other search tools...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Emily Dickinson

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Emily Dickinson including a biography, the full text of three poetry collections: Poems, Series 1, Poems, Series 2, and Poems, Series 3, each set of poems is listed by topics.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Poetic Forms

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to compare and contrast the relationship between the purpose and characteristics of different poetic forms: epic poetry and lyric poetry.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century.: Donne to Butler

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An introduction to J.C. Herbert Grierson's book, Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th Century. This provides a good explanation of metaphysical poetry as a type, and you can access the rest of the book which is a collection of the...
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Types of Poems

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Explores poetry terms and the different types of poetry.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Poetry Lesson: "Ain't Gonna Rain No More"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will study the rhythm of the old campfire song, "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," and they will study how Karen Beaumont borrows the rhythm for her book I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! Students will create their own lyrics that can be...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: The Romantic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on Romantic Poetry focuses on the Romantic Period including the shift in thoughts away from reason and science and toward the power of nature, emotion, imagination, and the individual man. It features links to a vocabulary...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: The First Generation: William Wordsworth

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on Romantic Poetry focuses on William Wordsworth who is famous for lyrical ballads. It features links to information about the French Revolution, two of his poems: "The World Is Too Much With Us" and "Lines...
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Beginnings of American Verse

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Describes the beginnings of American poetry, beginning with a publication in 1610. Click through the 18 sections to get the full picture. Extracted from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: Introduction: The Romantic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introduction to the British Romantic Period with poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Lord Byron, Shelly, and Keats. It focuses on essential questions such as "How did the shift in perspective and beliefs change the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Romantic Poetry: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson on Romantic Poetry focuses on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It features links to his biography, both text and audio versions of "Kubla Khan" and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and illustrations of the The Rime of the Ancient...
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Lyric Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief explanation of what a lyric poem is and the different types based on structure. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C: To Amoret Gone From Him

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of Henry Vaughan's metaphysical poem "To Amore Gone from Him."
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Harvard University

The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Lyric Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief note about the English lyric poetry prior to Chaucer and how it relates to Chaucer's "tales." Links provided to related topics.
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Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes: Convivio. Poesia Medieval Y Cancioneros

For Students 9th - 10th
Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once produced and received. This portal offers some of the most representative documents, as well as studies carried out by specialists in the field.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Anglo-Saxon Literature including the importance of the monks who listened to the stories and poems and wrote them down and the two nonfiction pieces that had an impact on creation of the written language: The...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1958: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the 1958 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960 CE), a writer who was honored for "his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Letter to Me

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading song lyrics to Brad Paisley's "A Letter to Me" and the personal essay "A Letter to My Younger Self" by Brian Elroy, students write a poem, lyric, or letter from George Washing to his younger self. Then students write a...
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Able Media

Able Media: A Modern Student's Guide to Catullus

For Students 9th - 10th
The Modern Student's Guide to Catullus by Raymond M. Koehler brings the poems of the Roman poet Catullus and the Latin language to life through song and story.
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Vroma Project

V Roma: Gaius Valerius Catullus

For Students 9th - 10th
A site containing Latin and English texts of Catullus' poems, as well as biographical information about him, his friends, lovers, and rivals, and several paintings. This section of VRoma was created by Henry J. Walker of Bates College.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A learning module that includes twenty-two links to videos, pictures, weblinks, charts, and activities about different types of poetry including couplet, cinquain, acrostic, diamante, limerick, free verse, lyric, narrative, concrete, and...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Understanding Poetry of Maya Angelou Through Rap Lyric

For Teachers 9th - 10th
By examining the lives and lyrics of popular, positive black female rappers such as Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill, students can trace a direct line back to the inspirational writer and poet, Maya Angelou. Rap lyrics will help explicate...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 23: The Poetry of Jim Morrison

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity is designed to help young scholars recognize how lyrics by the rock-poet Jim Morrison connect with themes from diverse and respected traditional works. While William Blake's influence on Morrison is often...
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Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus

For Students 9th - 10th
A general biography of Qintus Horatius Flaccus, better known as Horace, an outstanding lyric poet and satirist.

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