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
Onomatopoeia —

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

More Poetry
Poetry MC Camp – Getting ready for the AP Literature test