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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine the relationship of poetic form and content, shaped by alliteration, consonance, repetition, and rhythm, in two poems about fatherhood: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz."
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Website
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Robert Hayden

For Students 9th - 10th
This page includes a picture of Robert Hayden and a short biography on him. Also has links to more information about him.