Donnelly
Exploratory Art
Rock and Poetry Project
The Project
First: Peruse the list of poetry provided, or locate your own. Do any titles seem interesting? Using
your language arts book or any other online or printed poetry sources, read some of the poems,
and find some that you understand and like.
Second: Identify the major theme/idea in this poem? What is the poet’s message?
Third: Think of a song that reminds you of this poem. Perhaps the main point is similar, or the
tone or diction. You can also illuminate the meaning of a poem by presenting a song with an
opposite idea. Think about your musical tastes. Do you have any CDs at home that may have songs
that relate to your poem?
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Make intelligent choices; you will use this song to enhance our understanding of the poem,
both its theme as well as its structure and language.
Finally: Jot down a list of similarities and differences in meanings. Then, closely analyze the poem
and the song for literary devices. Once you’ve found them, identify how do these devices enhance
your understanding of the poem? Your presentation should reflect thoughtful analysis of both the
poem and the song, concentrating on the thematic connection you discovered. There should also
be a strong focus on literary devices.
The Presentation
After you have chosen your pieces and completed all of the steps, prepare a presentation. The
presentation should consist of both a discussion and a creative method to present your
connection. You will need:
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A copy of the poem for the entire class
A copy of the song lyrics for the entire class
The song-we want to hear it, of course!
Some kind of visual and/or audience participation plan
DUE FRIDAY 9/20
Some Possible Poems
“The Tiger”, Blake
“To Autumn”, Keats
“That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold”,
Shakespeare
“Pied Beauty”, Hopkins
“Kubla Khan”, Coleridge
“Dover Beach”, Arnold
“La Belle Dame sans Merci”, Keats
“To His Coy Mistress”, Marvell
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, Marlowe
“Death, Be Not Proud”, Donne
“Upon Julia’s Clothes”, Herrick
“To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”, Lovelace
“The World is Too Much With Us”, Wordsworth
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, Keats
“The Second Coming”, Yeats
“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”,
Shakespeare
“Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”,
Shakespeare
“Fear No More the heat o’ the Sun”, Shakespeare
“Ode to a Nightingale”, Keats
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Eliot
“Anthem for Doomed Youth”, Owen
“When Icicles Hang on the Wall”, Shakespeare
“Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God”, Donne
“Love Bade Me Welcome”, Herbert
“Ode to the West Wind”, Shelley
“God’s Grandeur”, Hopkins
“Don No Go Gentle Into that Good Night”, Thomas
“Delight in Disorder”, Herrick
“My Last Duchess”, R. Browning
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”, Keats
“Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3,
1802”, Wordsworth
“The Darkling Thrush”, Hardy
“Loveliest of Trees”, Housman
“Fern Hill”, Thomas
“Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?”, Sucking
“Musee des Beaux Arts”, Auden
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, Coleridge
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”, Yeats
“Ulysses”, Tennyson
“The Eagle”, Tennyson
“When You Are Old”, Yeats
“Dulce et Decorum Est”, Owen
“A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning”, Donne
“The Lamb”, Blake
“She Walks in Beauty”, Byron
“When I Am Dead”, Rossetti
“A Red, Red Rose”, Burns
“To An Athlete Dying Young”, Housman
“The Canonization”, Donne
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”,
Wordsworth
“To a Skylark”, Shelley
“When I Have Fears”, Keats
“How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways”, E. Browning
“The Oxen”, Hardy
“To a Mouse, Turning Up in Her Nest with the Plough,
November 1785”, Burns
“The Wild Swans at Coole”, Yeats
“When I was One-and Twenty”, Wilde
“To---”, Shelley
“The Man He Killed”, Hardy
“The Demon Lover”, Anonymous
“When We Two Parted”, Byron
“The Lady of Shallot”, Tennyson
“Whoso List to Hunt”, Wyatt
“Love Among the Ruins”
“Sailing to Byzantium”
“Snake”, D.H. Lawrence
“Journey of the Magi”, T.S. Eliot
“Innocence”, Blake
“Experience”, Blake
“Not Waving, But Drowing”