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Track #93869: Poetry, poetry, and more poetry.
Annotated by: lorinda lockard
1. Introduction to poetry
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9502/poetry.html

Read "The Pasture."
1. What are the literal and figurative meanings of the poem?
Read "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
2.How many members are in the brigade?
Read the introduction to "The Bells."
3.Where do we make consonant and vowels sounds?
Read the section called "Figurative Language."
4. Define the terms "synecdoche," "paradox," and "antithesis."

2. Hughes and Dickinson poems
http://www.poets.org/poems/search.cfm

Find Langston Hughes. Read "I, too, sing, America."
5.Copy down one metaphor from the poem.
Go back to "find poem page." Find Emily Dickinson. Read "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (712).
6. What is personified in the poem?

3. poetry questions and write a poem
http://www.poetryexpress.org/

Go to "make" and read the introduction page.
7. From where does the word "poet" derive?
8. What does "poet" mean?
9. Who said, "From heaven to earth, from earth to heaven"?
10. Does poetry need to rhyme?
11. Who said, " Tell the Truth, but tell it slant"?
12. Do poems need revision?
Go to bottom of page and click on "15 poems." Write either option #3, "Take a Snapshot" or option #14, "Follow a Metaphor."

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