Poetry Assignment – 9th Grade
Poets and Poems
1. Maya Angelou
Harlem Hopscotch (2)
2. W. H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen (3)
3. Gwendolyn Brooks
4. Gwendolyn Brooks
Strong Men Riding Horses (4)
We Real Cool (6)
5. Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky (11) ( harder)
6. Louise Clifton
Miss Rosie (1)
7. e.e. cummings
8. e.e. cummings
maggie and milly and molly and may (12)
somewhere I have never traveled (19)
9. Emily Dickinson
10. Emily Dickinson
I Heard A Fly Buzz (5)
Bustle in a House (10)
11. Robert Frost
Fire and Ice (7)
12. Billy Collins
The Afterlife (18)
13. Nikki Giovanni
Knoxville, Tennessee (17) (easy)
14. Langston Hughes
15. Langston Hughes
Harlem (1)
Dream Variations (15)
16. Edna St. Vincent Millay The Courage My Mother Had (3)
17.Simon Ortiz
My Father’s Song (16)
18. Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee (9)
19. Anne Sexton
Courage (14)
20. William Stafford
At the Bomb Testing Site (8)
21. Walt Whitman
Cavalry Crossing A Ford (13)
22. Li Po
Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon (20)
23. Ana Castillo
When I was Gone a War Began (21)
24. Rudyard Kipling
If (22)
25. Stephen Spender
An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum