Tuesday, September 24, 2013

AP Poetry Links

Follow this link to the list of poems: http://edsitement.neh.gov/feature/twenty-one-poems-ap-literature-and-composition

From the list of poems below, you and a partner will choose / be assigned one.

Arnold - Dover Beach

Bishop - In the Waiting Room

Browning - My Last Duchess

Donne - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Frost - Mending Wall

Carolyn Forche - The Colonel

Hughes - Let America be America

Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn

Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Using all of the resources on that site, our poorly edited and yet informative poetry packet, and whatever else you may wish to utilize, you will teach this poem to the class.

* Include brief author biography, highlighting any possible relevance to the poem.
* Use photographs to represent images / allusions in the poem.
* Annotate / Paraphrase
* Identify the use of literary devices and be prepared to discuss their effectiveness.

Each of you will turn in a one-page reflection paper on your poem. All due Thursday.

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