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 • • • • • • • • • • 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 • • • • • • 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 • • • • • 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