“In Mrs Tilscher’s Class” Poetic Devices & Figurative Language End-Stopped Line In the first two stanzas of “In Mrs Tilscher’s Class,” the speaker uses end-stop often—but without any obvious pattern. For
10. Familiarize yourself with myriad forms of poetry. Each different form of poetry has its own requirements—rhyme scheme, number of lines, meter, subject matter, and more—that make them unique from other types of poems. Think of these structures as the poetic equivalent of the grammar rules...
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 (...
10. Choose a poem which takes as its starting point a memorable experience. Discuss how the poet’s presentation of the experience helps you to appreciate its significance. 11. Choose a poem which encourages you to think differently or to understand something in a new way. Discuss how the po...
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...