Though she uses free verse, she doesn’t radically break with the expectations and patterns of English meter. Instead, Duffy's poem describes a personal experience in vivid, evocative detail. This makes her poem a good example of a poetic movement called lyric narrative. Lyric narrative poems ...
Above is the prompt I used when I taught Advanced Placement English Literature (APLit) for all kinds of literature. This was before the Common Core’s “close reading” dictums; APLit students read and looked for author style and purpose because that was the focus of the course. Tonight (...
Happy Birthday, John Milton! (Poetic Genius and Christmas Curmudgeon) December 9, 2013—Leave a comment No sooner are essays on Mary Shelley’sFrankensteinhanded in, then the copies ofParadise Lostare handed out to the Advanced Placement English Literature Students. Yes, there are over 10,000 ...
Based on the reaction from the crowd, his concerns about a wrong step was unfounded. Since most of his poems are fairly short, he was able to offer a broad range of topics and observations. There were mice, glistening bars of soap, ill-fitting dinner jackets, a few “frog-less” haikus...