Pick a topic

Read pages in the  Backpack Literature (Kennedy & Gioia).

Chapters 9-22 all deal with poetry in some form or fashion.  Instead of reading the entirety of these chapters, I'm going to pin point some things to focus on. 

Literary Terms:

pp. 377-379 or 363-365

pp. 393-394 or 379-381

pp. 418-420 or 404-404

pp. 437-438 or 421-422

pp. 448-449 or 432-433

p. 462 or 432-433

pp. 481-483 or 447-448

pp. 496-499 or 464-466

pp. 512- 515 or 478-482

This gets us through chapter 14. I suggest scanning the remaining chapters on poetry through 22 to familiarize yourself with the major terms. 

 

I've broken the poems into categories:

 

NOTE: the page numbers below are for the 5th edition. If you have the 4th or 6th, you an either look in your book or use the links.

Family

“Those Winter Sundays” p. 382 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46461/those-winter-sundays Links to an external site.

“My Papa’s Waltz” p. 393 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43330/my-papas-waltz Links to an external site.

“The Mother” p. 591 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55628/the-mother-56d2376720a5d Links to an external site.

 

Youth, Growing, and Aging

“When I Was One-and-Twenty” p. 507 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52706/when-i-was-one-and-twenty-56d2316642304 Links to an external site.

“White Lies” p. 400 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58265/white-lies Links to an external site.

“Rite of Passage” p. 410 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47055/rite-of-passage Links to an external site.

 

Romance

“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” p. 464 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day Links to an external site.

“What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why” p. 522 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46557/what-lips-my-lips-have-kissed-and-where-and-why Links to an external site.                                   

“How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” p. 595 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43742/sonnets-from-the-portuguese-43-how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways Links to an external site.

 

Religion

“Fire & Ice” p. 441 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/fire-and-ice Links to an external site.

“God’s Grandeur” p. 491 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur Links to an external site.

“Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God, for You” p. 420 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44106/holy-sonnets-batter-my-heart-three-persond-god Links to an external site.

“Pied Beauty” p. 453 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44399/pied-beauty Links to an external site.

“The Second Coming” p. 567 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming Links to an external site.

 

Patriotic

 “Learning to Love America” p. 625 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46551/learning-to-love-america Links to an external site.

“I Hear America Singing” p. 644 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46480/i-hear-america-singing Links to an external site.

 

Death and Dying

“The World is Too Much With Us” p. 563 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45564/the-world-is-too-much-with-us Links to an external site.

“Not Waving but Drowning” p. 458 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-but-drowning Links to an external site.

“Ballad of Birmingham” p. 520 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46562/ballad-of-birmingham Links to an external site.

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” p. 562 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148652/nothing-gold-can-stay-5c095cc5ab679 Links to an external site.

 “To An Athlete Dying Young” p. 616 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46452/to-an-athlete-dying-young Links to an external site.

“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” p. 600 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479 Links to an external site.

“Death Be Not Proud” p. 601 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44107/holy-sonnets-death-be-not-proud Links to an external site.

“When You are Old” p. 651 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43283/when-you-are-old Links to an external site.

“Do Not go Gentle into That Good Night” p. 526 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46569/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night Links to an external site.

 

Nature

“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” p. 607 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening Links to an external site.

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” p.540 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird Links to an external site.

“The Tyger” p. 590 or   https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger Links to an external site.

 

Choices and Triumph 

“The Road Not Taken” p. 555 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken Links to an external site.

“Lady Lazarus” p. 568 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarusLinks to an external site.

“The Pow Wow at the End of the World” p. 582 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47895/the-powwow-at-the-end-of-the-world Links to an external site.

“We Wear the Mask” p. 527 or  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44203/we-wear-the-mask Links to an external site.

 

Essay 4 - Poetry due Sunday. 

Poets often use different literary terms in their poems (metaphors, similes, imagery, etc). Read the three poems you chose again, and find at least two literary devices in each. Give examples of the devices used. How do you think that the literary devices aid the poet in expressing his or her thoughts? For whom do you think that this poem was written (audience)? What would you say are the themes of the poems, and what do you think that the poet trying to say through the entire poem?

Essay guidelines

• The essay should be no fewer than 1000 words.

• The essay should include citations from the text.

• The essay should NOT include information from any outside sources other than your textbook. You should include both inner citations and a works cited page from the information in the textbook in MLA format.

• Students should make sure that they answer the entire question and support their answers.

 

 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/

I was able to search poems by name in the search panel if the link doesn’t work.