Poetry

Poetry

Welcome to the CHS Poetry web page.

 

 

Assignments

Poetry Workbook

 

Introduction to the Poem - Boynton and Mack (Third Edition)

Unit 1 - The Pem as Subject
Unit 2 - The Poem as Dramatic Situation

 

 

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Poetry Resources

  • Online Poetry Collections
    • Anthology of Poetry from web-books.com
    • Poetry.com - the International Library of Poetry
    • Poets.org from the Academy of American Poets
    • Representative Poetry at the University of Toronto is a chronological list of poems era by era, but you can access the list by poet, by title, by first line, and by keyword.  Pre-twentieth-century criticism about poetry is also available here, some in prose, some in verse.
    • American Verse Project  from the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Press is an electronic archive of 170 American poems written prior to 1920. Approximately half of the poets represented here are women.
    • The eServer Poetry Collection specializes in classical poems but also lists a few original works, a poetry journal, and a few essays about poetry.  The search engine on the page searches for any word match, not whole titles, if you ask it to find a poem. It also links to a few other poetry sites. ( 75+ entries)
    • Atlantic Monthly Online - From 1857 to now, from poems by Emerson to Polish Nobel winner Wislawa Szymborska, read and maybe hear (Real Audio) poems and commentary.
    • Modern and Contemporary Poetry - from the University of Pennsylvania professor Alan Filreis
    • Poetry Daily -  focuses on contemporary poetry. Click on the poem featured for the day, or scroll down to see the list of poems featured during the current week.
    • Poetry X - a web site devoted to reading, analyzing, and discussing the best in classic and contemporary poetry.Splash Poetry Challenge - Submit your poetry and view others' work
    • Vispo - Poetry meets the computer

  • Writing Poetry - the following sites contain creation myths from around the globe
  • Poets

 

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