Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Doing Without

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece share what it would be like to go without having many material possessions.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: The End and the Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this non-prose piece, the poet describes the post-war area needs and the concerns of the traumatized area in the years after.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Blue Willow

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the poet reminisces about the willow and rushes near her childhood home.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Happiness

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the poet expresses the theme that true happiness cannot be found in material items.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: It Took All My Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the author reminisces about catching a fish, a symbolic event in the poet's life.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Unconditional Day

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares a poem from a young adult reminiscing about past Halloween celebrations.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-stanza non-prose autobiographical piece shares what the poet reminsces about her sixteenth year in the early 1960's.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: The Green One Over There

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose piece shares a story of jealousy and the tragic illness that occurred in its midst.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: A Birthday Candle

For Students 9th - 10th
The non-prose piece describes a thirtieth birthday candle being blown out and the thoughts surrounding this event.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180:how to Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids in Her Future

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the poet advises how to communite with a mother that there will be no grandchildren from her in the future.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: The Last Wolf

For Students 9th - 10th
In this non-prose piece, the scene of a wolf, which is the last surviving member in the midst of a sprawling area, is described.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: The Rider

For Students 9th - 10th
This non-prose poem questions whether riding a bicycle can help prevent the feeling of loneliness.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Fast Break

For Students 9th - 10th
In this poem, a basketball going through a net via a fast break, is shared within the seventeen, two-line stanzas.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Immortality

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem about the topic of "immortality", as in the story of Sleeping Beauty, is shared within two stanzas.
Activity
Repeat After Us

Repeat After Us: They Shut Me Up in Prose

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "They Shut Me Up In Prose --", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Gary Bodwin and can access a printable version of this piece.
Website
Sacred Text Archive

Ista: Complete Corpus of Anglo Saxon Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
The Internet Sacred Text Archive offers the Complete Corpus of Anglo Saxon Poetry. All of the titles link to primary documents, written in their original language.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Odyssey (Prose) by Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the complete text of the prose version of the epic poem The Odyssey (prose) by Homer including all 24 books.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Iliad (Prose) by Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of a prose version of the Greek epic poem The Iliad by Homer. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles during the Trojan War.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Prose Version) by Anonymous

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of a prose version of the Medieval British Literature epic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, author unknown. It also provides prefaces for the first and second editions and notes about the work.
Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: The Poetry and Prose of Langston Hughes [Pdf]

For Teachers 11th Standards
In this instructional activity, 11th graders explore how the poetry of Langston Hughes reflected political and social issues of the time and how literature can support social change.
Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

Univ. Of Toronto: Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto gives the full text of several of Alexander Pope's poems, including "The Rape of the Lock."
Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Oscar Wilde the Doer of Good

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of Oscar Wilde's prose poem "The Doer of Good." Includes a link to other full texts of Wilde's work on Bibliomania.
Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Oscar Wilde the Disciple

For Students 9th - 10th
Oscar Wilde's prose poem "The Disciple." Includes a link to other full texts of Wilde's work on Bibliomania.
Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Oscar Wilde the Master

For Students 9th - 10th
Oscar Wilde's prose poem "The Master." Includes a link to other full texts of Wilde's work on Bibliomania.

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