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Pondering Poetry

You do not need to be a poet to know it! Learn how to understand poetry.

Jumpstart Reading Literature: Key Ideas and Details, Craft and Structure; Language: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
CCSS 9-10.RL.1-2; 9-10.RL.4; 9-10.L.5.a

Resource Subject
1 What Makes a Poem a Poem? English / Language Arts
2 Reading and Annotating the Poetry of Stevie Smith Reading
3 Analyzing Poetry: ''The Road Not Taken'' English / Language Arts
4 Identifying Tone in Poetry Reading
5 Literary Devices: Euphemism, Paradox, Oxymoron, and Hyperbole English / Language Arts