And while some free verse poems do use rhyme occasionally and in unpredictable ways, “In Mrs. Tilscher’s Class” is almost entirely free from such rhymes. After all, the speaker is emulating the natural speaking voice of someone reflecting on their childhood. By avoiding the artificial ...
They were writing diamonte poems, and I taught them how to draw a diamond to accompany their poetry. I took this concept of drawing a diamond, and tried writing instructions for sharing the steps with out an illustration. The product of pupils producing stunning gems from nothing but words...
We must not forget her "pictorial" modes of representation, the medieval atmosphere and settings that appear repeatedly in her poems, her appreciation of the world’s physical beauty and its expression in lush images, the intensity of(35) her poems, which seems inseparable from their "sincerity...
The results were unexpected. While my students are good at analyzing poems, I was unaware that a number of them are born storytellers. In their retellings, they captured the spirit, and sometimes the exact language, of the poem. They found ways to expand on the isolation and alienation of ...
” This collection of 80 poems includes selections fromSappho to Allen Ginsberg, Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson. In aninterview on NPR,Pinsky explained that the poems for the book were selected “because of themusic of the language, and not from the meaning of the words.” In the interview ...
and found inside the poemsSonnetandAristotlethat I now use with my Advanced Placement students, but I do not teach Taking Off Emily Dickenson’s Clothes. They do not appreciate the Belle of Amherst the way Billy and I do. and The standing ovation ...