FINAL Poetry Analysis Assignment
Your final poetry analysis assignment is to:
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Read at least 3 poems written by the same poet (You must include a copy of each poem
with your paper)
Analyze them. Look at the graphic organizers provided.
Give some biographical information about your poet.
You may choose any professional published poet. This does not include people published at
internet-only sites, such as poetry.com. Below are list of poets and websites where you can find
information. There are MANY poetry anthologies available for check-out from the J. Percy Page
Library.
Academy of American Poets
www.poets.org/index
Poetry Daily
www.poems.com
Poetry Society of America
www.poetrysociety.org
Favorite Poem Project
www.favoritepoem.org
Poetry Magazine
www.poetrymagazine.org
Here are some poets that you might want to examine.
Allen Ginsberg
Langston Hughes
Robert Pinsky
Billy Collins
Luis J. Rodriguez
Seamus Heaney
Carl Sandburg
Margaret Atwood
Stevie Smith
Dylan Thomas
Marilyn Hacker
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allen Poe
Maya Angelou
T.S. Eliot
Elizabeth Bishop
Michael Harper
Theodore Roethke
Emily Dickinson
Phyllis Wheatley
Wallace Stevens
Ezra Pound
Rita Dove
Walt Whitman
Frank O’Hara
Robert Frost
William Butler Yeats
Gerald Manley Hopkins
Robert Hass
William Carlos Williams
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Hayden
John Ashbery
Robert Lowell
Any other poet that interests you. (Must be approved by me)