POETRY NEW AND OLD
Learning By Discovery
Created by Ann Porter and Tina
Kerr
Teams
• Teams will be comprised of three or four
students.
• The members of the team will be chosen
randomly as will the subject area.
• Each person in the team is responsible for
their part of the work.
• Ultimately the goal is to share what you
have learned, so take good notes!
TYPES OF POETRY
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1. War Poetry
2. Canadian Poetry
3. Sonnets
4. Poetry in the 1600s
5. English Romantic Poets
6. English Poets of the 1800s Part I
7. English Poets of the 1800s Part II
8. American Poetry of the 1800s
9. 20th Century Poets Part I
10. 20th Century Poets Part II
WAR POETRY
• Crimean War Alfred, Lord Tennyson:The
Charge of the Light Brigade
• WWI John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
• Wilfred Owen : Anthem for Doomed Youth,
Dulce et Decorum Est, Greater Love
• Siegfried Sassoon: Attack, The General, The
Glory of Women
• Isaac Rosenberg: Break of Day in the Trenches
• WW II John Gillespie Magee: High Flight ; An
Airman’s Ecstasy
CANADIAN POETRY
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Charles G.D. Roberts: the Mowing
Bliss Carmen: Vagabond Song
E.J. Pratt: The Shark
Earle Birney: The Bear on the Delhi Road
Irving Layton: The Bull Calf, The Fertile Muck
Leonard Cohen: For Anne, What I’m Doing
Here, Suzanne Takes You Down
• Margaret Atwood: This is a Photograph of Me,
The Animals in That Country
• Michael Ondaatje: King Kong Meets Wallace
Stevens, Spider Blues
THE SONNET
• William Shakespeare: 18, 29, 30, 71, 116
• Edmund Spenser One Day I Wrote Her Name
Upon the Strand
• Sir Philip Sidney: Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the
Certain Knot of Peace
• William Wordsworth: Upon Westminster Bridge
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How Do I love
Thee? Let me Count the Ways
• Rupert Brooke: The Soldier
POETS OF THE 1600s
• Ben Johnson: To Celia, Come My Celia
• John Donne; Go and Catch a Falling Star,Holy
Sonnet 10 Death Be Not Proud
• Robert Herrick: Delight in Disorder, To the
Virgins to Make Much of Time
• George Herbert: Easter Wings, Love III
• Sir John Suckling: Why So Pale and Wan, Fond
Lover?
• John Milton: When I Consider How My Light is
Spent
• Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC
POETS
• William Blake; The Tyger
• William Wordsworth: The Daffodils, The World
is To Much With Us, My Heart Leaps Up
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
• George Gordon, Lord Byron: So We’ll Go No
More A-Roving, She Walks in Beauty, When We
Two Parted
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias, England in
1819
• John Keats: When I Have Fears, Bright Star, La
Belle Dame Sans Merci
ENGLISH POETS OF THE 1800S :
PART I
• Leigh Hunt: Abou Ben Adhem, Jenny Kissed
Me
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Break, Break, Break,
Crossing the Bar, Ulysses, The Eagle
• Robert Browning:, Meeting at Night , Home
Thoughts From Abroad
• Edward Lear: The Owl and the Pussy Cat
• Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
• George Meredith: Lucifer in Starlight
ENGLISH POETS OF THE 1800S
PART II
• Christina Rossetti: When I am Dead My
Dearest, Up-Hill
• Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky, Father William
• Thomas Hardy: The Oxen, Neutral Tones
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: God’s Grandeur,
Spring and Fall
• William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree,
When You Are Old
• Rudyard Kipling: Danny Deever
AMERICAN POETRY OF THE
1800S
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn, The
Snowstorm
Edgar Allen Poe: Annabel Lee, The Haunted Palace
Walt Whitman: A Noiseless Patient Spider, O Captain!
My Captain, I Hear America Singing
Emily Dickinson: A Bird Came Down the Walk, success
is counted Sweetest, I Never Saw a Moor
Eugene Field: The Duel; the Gingham Dog and Calico
Cat
Edwin Arlington Robinson: Richard Cory
Paul Laurence Dunbar: We Wear the Mask
20TH CENTURY POETS
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Langston Hughes: Harlem, Theme for English B
Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning
Louis MacNeice: The Sunlight on the Garden, Stargazer
Theodore Roethke: The Waking, Wish for a Young Wife
Dylan Thomas: The Force That Through the Green
Force Drives the Flower, Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night
• Gwendolyn Brooks: Kitchenette Building, We Real Cool
• Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California
20th Century Poets II
• Walter de la Mare: Silver, The Listeners
• Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken, Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening, Design
• Carl Sandburg: Chicago, Fog
William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow
• Archibald MacLeish:Callypso’s
• Edna St. Vincent Millay: Euclid Alone Has
Looked on Beauty Bare
• E.E. Cummings: next to of course god america,
anyone lived in a pretty how town