You will be learning strategies to help you appreciate poetry and read poetry more effectively.
Click on the Poetry Reading Strategies Link above.
Preview a poem and read it aloud a few times. Reading a poem aloud a few times can help you get an overall feel for the language, rhyme, and rhythm of the poem.
Visualize the images, clarify words and phrases. Visualizing is when
the author paints a picture in your head.
Evaluate the poem's theme, and allow your understanding to grow.
Ask yourself, what the poet is trying to help you understand. Does it connect to anything in your life?
Search the website's extensive curated collection of over 7,000 poems by occasion,theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name.
Read a few poems using the Poetry Reading Strategies.
Listen to the "Power of Poetry" by Dana Gioia. Then choose a few other poems to listen to. Notice rhythmic patterns, rhymes, and alliteration. Visualize the images. Evaluate the poem's theme. Ask yourself, what message is the poet trying to send or help you understand? Does it relate to your life in any way?
My Favorite Poem
Thinking about what you have learned and know about rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, and visualization, create your own poem with yourself as the theme.
