English Literature

1. English Literature Poetry - Week 1

2. Schedule • Day 1 • The Sonnet - Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day • http://www.fleurdelis.com/shallIcomparethee.htm • Blank Verse - Rain • http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2008/02/16/rain-by-edward-thomas/ • Day 2 • The Stanza - I died for beauty • http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2011/01/06/i-died-for-beauty-by-emily-dickinson/ • The Villanelle – Do not go gently into that good night • http://www.bigeye.com/donotgo.htm • Day 3 • The Sestina – The shrinking lonesome sestina • http://bruisedearth.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/the-shrinking-lonesome-sestina/ • The Pastoral – Let evening come • http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=175711 • Day 4 • Open Form – I, Too • http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177020 • The Ballad – Charge of the Light Brigade • http://www.nationalcenter.org/ChargeoftheLightBrigade.html • Day 5 • The Ode – Perhaps the world ends here • http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179782

3. Resources • Using the Internet to find different types of poetry, and learning about them. • Making of a poem – A book written about the different forms of poetry including poems of each form.

4. What I Hope they would Learn • The different forms of poetry • famous poems • Help them to write their own poetry with each form • Works Cited • The Making of a Poem: Strand Mark, and Boland Eavan: W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London. • Poetry Foundation, Internet site • Poem of the day, Internet site