Twenty-One Poems for AP Literature and Composition. Click here for the related feature, "Fiction and Non-Fiction for AP English Literature and Composition.
" The selections within this listing represent frequently taught poets and poems in AP English Literature and Composition. For each of the twenty-one poems or poetic forms for AP Literature and Composition, students and teachers will find a link to the poem and multimedia resources. These include EDSITEment lessons as well as EDSITEment-reviewed websites that discuss the poem, the poet, and its context. Media incorporated in these resources include audio clips and video as well as primary source documents and photographs, along with other useful tools such as timelines.
They offer both the content and skills needed to support student success in AP English Literature and Composition. Sarah Lindsay and the Didactic Tradition : Parnassus Poetry. William Bartram, Drawing 56 from the botanical and zoological drawings (1756–1788), courtesy of the Natural History Museum, London. by Jamie James Sarah Lindsay.
Primate Behavior. The Daffodils. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) The real Ozymandias: King of Kings. Frost Free Library. NY/Arlington/MrBroomhead/AP-Poetry_Essays1-thru-2009.pdf. How-to-Recognize-a-Poem.doc. Methods of poetry analysis. Color Marking: A Way In. Welcome to Lit2Go ETC. The Poetry of Science.
Gimmicks. The word "gimmick" has derogatory connotations.
It often suggests something cheap, tricky, fast, without substance, even immoral. There are intelligent people who attack the use of gimmicks or devices in teaching imaginative writing, on the grounds that such devices encourage kids to be thoughtless smart alecks, witty at the expense of substance, satisfied with a glib surface but insensitive to depth of feeling. Such critics usually emphasize the importance of meaning. Were there a School of Gimmicks, its members might retort that the Defenders of Meaningfulness tend to be boring creeps who confuse self-expression with value, that the most sincere statement of feeling is no better than any other sincere statement, that what makes the difference in creative expression is style.
In other words, concern yourself with style, and everything else will take care of itself. These are two extreme points of view, of course. Found Poems. Literature-Map - The tourist map of literature. On Enjambment Lang Blog Poetry: Broken promises. We real cool by Gwendolyn Brooks. The Science of Robert Frost. Ever since reading Richard Holmes’s marvelous history The Age of Wonder, I’ve traced the links between poetry and science.
While Age of Wonder is a history of British science between the days of Newton and those of Darwin, Holmes had previously written about the poets of that era, such as Shelley and Coleridge (an early member of the British Academy for the Advancement of Science). He adds a lot to the scientific history of the era (when the elements were discovered, when the first new planet since the days of Ancient Greece was found) by showing how this amazing thing called "science" shaped the popular and literary culture.
War poetry. Poetry Online at Wired for Books. Apps for Poets! Glossary of Poetic Terms : Learning Lab. Cultural criticism/cultural studies Developing in the 18th and 19th centuries among writers such as Jonathan Swift, John Ruskin and, especially, Matthew Arnold, cultural criticism as it is practiced today has significantly complicated older notions of culture, tradition and value.
While Arnold believed in culture as a force of harmony and social change, cultural critics of the 20th century sought to extend and problematize such definitions. Theorists like Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, and those connected with the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, England—as well as French intellectuals such Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault—described culture not as a finished product but as a process that joined knowledge to interest and power. Deconstruction A poststructuralist theory mainly based on the writings of the French intellectual Jacques Derrida. Articles for Students & Teachers : Learning Lab. 200 Years of Afro-American Poetry by Langston Hughes. Introduction Poet and writer Langston Hughes stood at the center of the Harlem renaissance, and advocated the preservation and communication of African American traditions across the genres of music, poetry, and theater.
His own poetry often used the musical patterns of spirituals and the blues as received forms. In the 1960s, when this essay was published, Hughes’ refusal to convey a definitive political stance in his work caused some tension within the African American community, where conversation was dominated by the voices of Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael. “200 Years of Afro-American Poetry” was originally intended as the introduction to Les Poetes Negres des Etats-Unis (1962, ed. Jean Wagner), which was published in the U.S. in 1973 as Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes. Finally, Hughes examines why most African American poets have been protest poets.
Resources : Learning Lab : Core Learning Poems. Poet Vision Video Series: Webcasts and Podcasts (The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress) Webcasts & Podcasts from the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress Lucille Clifton View Video Cybercast (3 parts, 77 minutes) Recorded March 17, 1988 at Central High School in Philadelphia, PA.
Lucille Clifton won the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry for her book Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2000). She has written 10 collections of poetry and 19 children's books. Female Tradition as Feminist Innovation by Annie Finch. Introduction Annie Finch is a contemporary American poet whose work is deeply engaged with the connection between feminism and formalism.
This essay, “Female Tradition as Feminist Tradition,” which was published in her essay collection The Body of Poetry (2005), traces the historical and psychological paths that have drawn contemporary women poets toward the use of traditional formal structure, despite a lack of critical and theoretical attention.
Finch first locates her work within the historical context of women writing in form. She asserts the feminist aspect of utilizing traditional formal structure and pattern in the face of a history that has often spoken against—and over—women’s voices. Finch observes that unlike male poets, women poets do not have a canon of established female formal poets against whom to define themselves. When a Man Hath No Freedom. Meter In Poetry by Shmoop. On the Beach at Night by Walt Whitman.
Dreams. Classics. Poetry/videos. EnglishLab - Lesson Three:Music as the soundtrack to your life. Lesson Three:Music as the soundtrack to your life Welcome to Lesson Three Music by SueAnnan for eltpics on flickr In this lesson we are going to talk about music and how important it is in our lives. Then we will use some short pieces of music to help us tell a story together. 1) To prepare for this lesson you should revise “feelings” adjectives like: angry, relaxed, excited, calm, in a good mood, frightened etc.
Dickinson Electronic Archives. Fifteen Poets. Emily Dickinson Archive. Bloom's How to Write About Emily Dickinson (Anna Priddy) Those Winter Sundays : Poetry Everywhere : Video. Poetry. Poetry. Poems and Stories. How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual. Poetry Makes You Weird - The Chronicle Review. By Eric G. Wilson Pat Kinsella for The Chronicle Review In my first semester as a tenure-track English professor, my chairman asked me to represent our department at a weekend recruiting fair for high-school seniors.
My job would be to court prospective majors. Knowing that "yes" was the right pre-tenure answer, I agreed, and so found myself that next Saturday morning standing behind a folding table, cheap brochures littered on its brown surface. A father and son immediately appeared, in virginal Wake Forest T-shirts and blond crew cuts. After a confused "OK," the two looked down, backed away, and were gone. Like most English professors, I endure the grumbling of undergraduates subjected to literature requirements.
What Poetry Teaches Us About the Power of Persuasion. Logic and grammar are important.
But for students to truly own the English language, they need to read and write poems. Sychugina/Shutterstock A few years ago, I was working for a science teacher professional development program. My job was to go into schools and watch how high school science teachers were integrating the program's curriculum and content into their lessons. Not many people knew that I was a poet, not a science teacher. In Praise of Concision. Some guy on TV is describing how he fitted his automobile with a new skin: gluing them one by one, he has blanketed every inch of its exterior with beer-bottle caps.
Or he’s recounting how he fashioned, from zillions of ordinary toothpicks, a toothpick ten feet long and a foot thick—something Paul Bunyan couldn’t lift to his mouth. Or he’s displaying the dozens of photo albums that catalogue, exhaustively, the individual stacks of pancakes on which he has breakfasted daily for the past six years. And as I sit watching, one of my daughters ambles by, glances at the screen, and mutters, “Whoa, free time.”
Whoa, free time. In a minimum of space, it speaks volumes. What Is a Poem? Coleridge on Science vs. Romance, 1817. By Maria Popova “It is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part.” “True poetic practice implies a mind so miraculously attuned and illuminated that it can form words, by a chain of more-than coincidences, into a living entity,” Edward Hirsch wrote in his treatise on how to read a poem. “Poetry must resemble prose, and both must accept the vocabulary of their time,” W. B. Yeats argued in his 1936 meditation on modern poetry. The 'Always' and 'Never' Life of Sylvia Plath - Karen Swallow Prior. "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time," she wrote in The Bell Jar, "then I'm neurotic as hell.
" In the ninth grade, I took an elective course in Abnormal Psychology. I thought I wanted to be a psychiatrist and had developed a morbid fascination with things like electroshock therapy, multiple personality disorder, and Sigmund Freud. Motivated by these interests, I checked out The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's fictionalized autobiography, from my high school's tiny library. Alas, the book was the most darkly mature I'd ever read at that point in my life, and I was too tender an age to understand much but the work's overwhelming despair. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy. Lena Dunham. There Are Almost No Obituaries for Sylvia Plath - Ashley Fetters. 27, Elizabeth Bishop. The interview took place at Lewis Wharf, Boston, on the afternoon of June 28, 1978, three days before Miss Bishop and two friends were to leave for North Haven, a Maine island in Penobscot Bay where she summered.
The Unbearable by Terry Castle. What Sylvia Plath Taught Me infographic. A morbid anniversary: two new books mark the half-century since Sylvia Plath’s suicide. Gosh, Terry Castle is a brave writer. “The fiercest poet of our time”: Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath. Acquainted With the Night" Wallace Stevens Euro Lit Syllabus. Allen Ginsberg's "Beat Literary History Course" 'The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later' - The New York Times Book Review. 'I Urge You to Drop E67-02': Course Syllabi by Famous Authors - Emily Temple. W.B. Yeats, Magus. Essays. The golden age of the english poet-critic - bookforum.com / syllabi. Mar 25 2013. Committed to Memory. An annotated Checklist of English Versification. AI12.1x: Poetry in America: The Poetry of Early New England. AI12.2x: Poetry in America: Whitman. Trait Writing Lesson inspired by "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.
Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem. Make It New: The Rise of Modernism. A Hypertext Version of T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Five Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Thirteen Perspectives on Critical Pedagogy: A Collage. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - Annotated Literary Texts - Geneseo Wiki. Third Coast International Audio Festival. The Snow Man"