Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Stevie Smith
The biography is brief but covers the poet's life and themes. What makes the site valuable is its links to other Smith sites, including one RealAudio site that features the reading of her poem "Not Waving but Drowning."
Other
Lee & Low Books: Book Talk With Pat Mora
This site shares Pat Mora's poem "Song for April 30th." It also gives a link to an interview with Pat Mora and a link to her book "Confetti: Poems for Children." Great site for multicultural literature for children.
Other
Byron: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work
This site provides biographical information about Byron, a chronology of works, the text of his works and other good references.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: National Poetry Month: 30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month
Explore this in-depth collection of ideas for celebrating National Poetry Month.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Sylvia Plath
This web page provides a brief biography on Sylvia Plath with a photograph included.
Other
Thomas Gray Archive: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray
This is the text of the 128-line poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray. It is a meditation on death and remembrance of those who died. Links are provided for analysis and more information.
TES Global
Tes: Yr 5 Poetry Unit 1 a Poetic Style
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module engages students in analyzing different poems. A poetry unit overview, a poetry checklist, figurative language notes, sixteen poems and graphic organizers are included to help...
TES Global
Tes: Follower: Seamus Heaney
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint lesson guides students through the analysis of a poem. The poem featured is "Follower" by Seamus Heaney.
Other
The Poetry Archive: "I, Too" by Langston Hughes
From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, by permission of David Higham Associates, a recording from The Dream Keeper and Other Poems and a written version of "I, Too", written by Langston Hughes are provided on this site. Multiple...
Other
New Criterion: "A Craving for Reality: t.s.eliot Today" by Roger Kimball
This 1999 New Criterion essay examines the decline of Eliot's stature in academia and the culture in general due in part to the writings of Cynthia Ozick, Harold Bloom, and Eliot's biographers.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library: Alfred Lord Tennyson Works
This site provides links to 4 pieces of work of Alfred Lord Tennyson's: "Enoch Arden.." poetry collection, "Idylls of the King," "The Lady of Shalott" with Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and "The Princess: A Medley" with an excellent...
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of seven of Edward Fitzgerald's works.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Song Writing
This instructional activity engages students in writing lyrics to songs. Students will use free musical software to aid students as they put their lyrics to a tune and tempo.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Five Senses and Four Seasons Quilt
This lesson engages students in liistening to Gerda Muller's book, My Circle of Seasons. Students will investigate how the five seasons will help them learn aobut the five seasons. Students will write individual cinquain poems and then...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Share "The Fight" Oral Fluency Practice
This module provides a reading fluency lesson. To help second grade students improve their reading fluency, teachers will use Helen Moore's poem "The Fight" during the lesson.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Rhythm and Rhyming
This instructional activity engages students in the shared learning of different poems of the month. Students will clap different rhythms and then apply clapping patterns to different poems of the month. Each poem will contain different...
Read Works
Read Works: Poems & Questions for National Poetry Month
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a collection of sets of poems with comprehension questions. The poems were joined as a resource for teachers who are recognizing National Poetry Month during April of each year.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry
Learn how to find the meanings of words through analogy and other word relationships.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to understand and explore different types of poetry.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry (English 7 Reading)
You will learn the importance of graphical elements (e.g., capital letters, line length, word position) in the meaning of a poem.
Library of Congress
Loc: Digital Collections: The Raven
View this digital copy of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe in a scanned format from the Library of Congress' Rare Book Collection.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Shel Silverstein
Biographical site about Shel Silverstein's life. You can also click on the titles of his poems to read them in full.
Other
France web.fr: Andre Chenier, 1762 1794
A short, but moving biography, with three poems and a bibliography, provided by the Club des Poetes.
PBS
Pbs: Academic Vocabulary in the Common Core: Middle School English Language Arts
This video [14:33] shows a demonstration of academic vocabulary instruction through the context of a complex work, a poem. The teacher demonstrates how to access the literal meaning of new vocabulary and then infer the deeper meaning....