POETRY NEW AND OLD

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POETRY NEW AND OLD

• Learning By Discovery
• Created by Ann Porter and Tina Kerr

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Teams

• Teams will be comprised of three or four
  students.
• The members of the team will be chosen randomly
  as will the subject area.
• Each person in the team is responsible for their
  part of the work.
• Ultimately the goal is to share what you have
  learned, so take good notes!

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TYPES OF POETRY

• 1. War Poetry
• 2. Canadian Poetry
• 3. Sonnets
• 4. Poetry in the 1600s
• 5. English Romantic Poets
• 6. English Poets of the 1800s Part I
• 7. English Poets of the 1800s Part II
• 8. American Poetry of the 1800s
• 9. 20th Century Poets Part I
• 10. 20th Century Poets Part II

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WAR POETRY

• Crimean War Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Charge of
  the Light Brigade
• WWI John McCrae In Flanders Fields
• Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth, Dulce
  et Decorum Est, Greater Love
• Siegfried Sassoon Attack, The General, The
  Glory of Women
• Isaac Rosenberg Break of Day in the Trenches
• WW II John Gillespie Magee High Flight An
  Airmans Ecstasy

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CANADIAN POETRY

• Charles G.D. Roberts the Mowing
• Bliss Carmen Vagabond Song
• E.J. Pratt The Shark
• Earle Birney The Bear on the Delhi Road
• Irving Layton The Bull Calf, The Fertile Muck
• Leonard Cohen For Anne, What Im Doing Here,
  Suzanne Takes You Down
• Margaret Atwood This is a Photograph of Me, The
  Animals in That Country
• Michael Ondaatje King Kong Meets Wallace
  Stevens, Spider Blues

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THE SONNET

• William Shakespeare 18, 29, 30, 71, 116
• Edmund Spenser One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the
  Strand
• Sir Philip Sidney Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the
  Certain Knot of Peace
• William Wordsworth Upon Westminster Bridge
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Do I love Thee?
  Let me Count the Ways
• Rupert Brooke The Soldier

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POETS OF THE 1600s

• Ben Johnson To Celia, Come My Celia
• John Donne Go and Catch a Falling Star,Holy
  Sonnet 10 Death Be Not Proud
• Robert Herrick Delight in Disorder, To the
  Virgins to Make Much of Time
• George Herbert Easter Wings, Love III
• Sir John Suckling Why So Pale and Wan, Fond
  Lover?
• John Milton When I Consider How My Light is
  Spent
• Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress

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THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETS

• William Blake The Tyger
• William Wordsworth The Daffodils, The World is
  To Much With Us, My Heart Leaps Up
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
• George Gordon, Lord Byron So Well Go No More
  A-Roving, She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted
• Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias, England in
  1819
• John Keats When I Have Fears, Bright Star, La
  Belle Dame Sans Merci

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ENGLISH POETS OF THE 1800S PART I

• Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem, Jenny Kissed Me
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson Break, Break, Break,
  Crossing the Bar, Ulysses, The Eagle
• Robert Browning, Meeting at Night , Home
  Thoughts From Abroad
• Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussy Cat
• Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
• George Meredith Lucifer in Starlight

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ENGLISH POETS OF THE 1800S PART II

• Christina Rossetti When I am Dead My Dearest,
  Up-Hill
• Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky, Father William
• Thomas Hardy The Oxen, Neutral Tones
• Gerard Manley Hopkins Gods Grandeur, Spring
  and Fall
• William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of
  Innisfree, When You Are Old
• Rudyard Kipling Danny Deever

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AMERICAN POETRY OF THE 1800S

• Ralph Waldo Emerson Concord Hymn, The Snowstorm
• Edgar Allen Poe Annabel Lee, The Haunted Palace
• Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider, O
  Captain! My Captain, I Hear America Singing
• Emily Dickinson A Bird Came Down the Walk,
  success is counted Sweetest, I Never Saw a Moor
• Eugene Field The Duel the Gingham Dog and
  Calico Cat
• Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory
• Paul Laurence Dunbar We Wear the Mask

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20TH CENTURY POETS

• Langston Hughes Harlem, Theme for English B
• Stevie Smith Not Waving but Drowning
• Louis MacNeice The Sunlight on the Garden,
  Stargazer
• Theodore Roethke The Waking, Wish for a Young
  Wife
• Dylan Thomas The Force That Through the Green
  Force Drives the Flower, Do Not Go Gentle into
  That Good Night
• Gwendolyn Brooks Kitchenette Building, We Real
  Cool
• Allen Ginsberg A Supermarket in California

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20th Century Poets II

• Walter de la Mare Silver, The Listeners
• Robert Frost The Road Not Taken, Stopping by
  Woods on a Snowy Evening, Design
• Carl Sandburg Chicago, Fog
• William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow
• Archibald MacLeishCallypsos
• Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclid Alone Has Looked
  on Beauty Bare
• E.E. Cummings next to of course god america,
  anyone lived in a pretty how town