Poetry

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Poetry

Link – Teach Living Poets —

Poetry Questions and Poems AP Literature 1970 to 2014
Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers
Batter my heart – (meta) physical Poetry
Poetry Pairs Triplets Quads —-
Carol Jago Poetry Ideas
Carol Jago Poetry Ideas —
CollegeBoard.July20.Poetry —

Poems as Mentor Texts for Writing Focus Lessons
Compiled by Bill Sowder, Asst. Professor · Ewing, New Jersey, The College of New Jersey
Not sure I got all of these correct since poets were not named. Feel free to correct me if you find an error.

Ideas: Details.
Knoxville, Tennesee —
The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee —
Ex-Basketball Player —
The Fish —
If I Were in Charge of the World —
My Mother Enters the Work Force —

Ideas: Variety
What’s in My Journal —
Things I Learned Last Week —
January —

Organization
The Garden Year —
All the World’s a Stage —
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere —

Leads
I Care and I’m Willing to Serve —

Conclusions:
The Death of Santa Claus —
Forgotten —
The Lanyard —
The Lion and Albert —

Voice
Hazel Tells Laverne —
Mother to Son —
Little Orphan Annie —
Phenomenal Woman —
First Day at School —

Dialogue
Mending Wall —

Slang
Casey at the Bat —
Clarence —

Onomatopoeia
The Bells —

Word Choice: Verbs
Do Not Go Gentle —
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings —

Word Choice: Adjectives —
Willow and Gingko —
Absence – Paulo Neruda hyphenated adjective – Not sure which poet is meant here; therefore, I have listed several possibilities.
Absence — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Absence – Claude McKay
Absence – Matthew Arnold

Alliteration
Dream Deferred —
The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee —

Point of View
Mushrooms —
First Day of School — Again, not sure which one. One chosen, links for several more available
Turning Ten —

Repetition
Annabel —
The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee —

Description: Place
Today —

Compare/Contrast
Ellis Island —
Willow and Gingko —

Poetry and Poetry links
In Envy of Cows —

Ekphrastic Poetry
Ekphrastic Poetry – Collection
These are .pdf files. Some of the poetry might need to be re-typed and larger examples of the paintings located on the web.

Auden Musée des Beaux Arts …
Berryman Winter Landscape …
de la Mare Breughels Winter …
Dobyns The Street …
Engle Venus and the Lute Player …

Fanthorpe Not my Best Side …
Ferlinghetti The wounded wilderness of Morris Graves …
Finkel The Great Wave Hokusai …
Foerster Breughels Harvesters …
Ginsberg Cezannes Ports …
Hirsch Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad …
Jarrell The Bronze David of Donatello …
Kennedy Nude Descending a Staircase …
Langland Hunters in the Snow Breughel …
Leader Girl at Sewing Machine …
Longfellow The Cross of Snow …
MacDonald The Bowling Match at Castlemary Cloyne …
Mahon Courtyards in Delft …
Mahon Girls on the Bridge …
Mahon St Eustace …
Mahon The Hunt by Night …
Markham The Man with the Hoe …
OHara On Seeing Larry Rivers Washington crossing the Delaware …
Snodgrass Matisse The Red Studio …
Song Girl Powdering Her Neck …
Stone American Gothic …
Stone Early Sunday Morning …
Stone The Forest Fire …
Stone Three for the Mona Lisa …
Sullivan Number 1 by Jackson Pollock …
Swenson The Tall Figures of Giacometti …
Szymborska Two Monkeys by Breughel …
The Village of the Mermaids …
Williams Childrens Games …
Williams Classic Scene …
Williams Haymaking …
Williams Landscape with the Fall of Icarus …
Williams Peasant Wedding …
Williams The Adoration of the Kings …
Williams The Corn Harvest …
Williams The Dance …
Williams The Great Figure …
Williams The Hunter in the Snow …
Williams The Parable of the Blind …
Williams The Wedding Dance in the Open Air …