Teaching resources centered on famous poems, with activities and lesson ideas for close reading, interpretation, literary analysis, and classroom discussion.
The complete Project Gutenberg text of Beowulf, translated from the Heyne-Socin text by Jno. Lesslie Hall, with preface, glossary, bibliography, notes, and the full Anglo-Saxon epic in English translation.
A large PDF collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short tales and poems, including The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Bells, The Haunted Palace, The Conqueror Worm, and many other works.
A Spanish-language Project Gutenberg collection of Edgar Allan Poe's poems, including Annabel Lee, Eldorado, The Bells, Ulalume, The Raven, and other works, with a prologue by Rubén Darío.
Project Gutenberg's complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry, including The Raven, The Bells, Annabel Lee, Ulalume, Eldorado, To Helen, Dreamland, and many other poems, along with notes and essays.
Project Gutenberg's first series of Emily Dickinson poems, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson, featuring a broad selection of Dickinson's poetry on life, nature, love, death, faith, and the inner life.
Project Gutenberg's Poems: Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson, collecting a large body of Dickinson's poetry.
Project Gutenberg's second series of Emily Dickinson poems, presenting a wide selection of her lyric poetry for reading, literary analysis, and classroom study.
A two-page haiku reference featuring examples attributed to Japanese poets including Bashō and Issa along with selected Western haiku, plus brief background notes on the poets and the form.
A four-page poetry analysis worksheet using Langston Hughes's A Dream Deferred to teach simile, imagery, theme, historical context, personal response, and original figurative-language poetry writing.
A free interdisciplinary lesson on Emma Lazarus's 'The New Colossus' using historical photography, repeated reading, vocabulary, evidence, immigration history, and poetry analysis.
Free high-school poetry lesson using Langston Hughes to connect poetry analysis, historical context, research, social issues, and original writing.
Free K–2 poetry and art lesson using visual art and William Blake as inspiration for discussing poetic language and creating original contrasting or grotesque-inspired poems.
Free K–2 Poetry Month activity for close reading Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Land of Nod' through repeated reading, observation, discussion, literary elements, and evidence-based responses.
Free K–1 sample poetry lesson built around Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Land of Nod,' with rereading, vocabulary, choral reading, interpretive drawing, discussion, and comprehension activities.
Free high-school poetry unit using Romantic art and William Wordsworth to teach literary history, close reading, TP-CASTT poetry analysis, and analytical writing.
Free high-school poetry lesson in which students analyze traditional sonnets, chart rhyme scheme and meter, identify shared characteristics, and write an original sonnet.
A free collection of Women's History Month poems appropriate for young people, with links to related lesson plans and works by classic and contemporary women poets.
A broad free Women's History Month poetry collection with poems, women-poet profiles, audio, video, essays, archival material, books, and lesson plans for classroom exploration.
Openly licensed Grades 8–9 poetry lesson that uses Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven to teach symbolism, figurative language, textual evidence, and free-verse writing.
Project Gutenberg's extensive collection of Robert Burns poetry and songs, including To a Mouse, Auld Lang Syne, Address to a Haggis, Tam o' Shanter, ballads, elegies, songs, epistles, satires, and other works.
A poetry-analysis quiz using Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 and William Blake's The Lamb to assess rhyme scheme, meter, syllables, poetic form, personification, imagery, refrain, sonnet structure, theme and literary techniques.
A classroom presentation covering poetic rhythm, cadence, meter, metrical feet, scansion, stanza lengths, rhyme schemes, rhyme types, sound patterns, and examples from Shakespeare, Blake, Poe, Lear, Longfellow, and others.
A grades 10–12 poetry analysis lesson using Walt Whitman's A Noiseless Patient Spider to teach metaphor, theme, interpretation, and evidence-based analysis.
An extensive 80-page high school poetry unit from Jefferson County Public Schools with lessons on active reading, poetry vocabulary, oral reading, poetic conventions, sensory imagery, voice, titles, rhyme, figurative language, poetic devices, organization, line breaks, revision, and classroom strategies.
Project Gutenberg's large public-domain edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and other poems, with editorial notes, glosses, historical material, and Middle English literary works.
Project Gutenberg's collection of Rupert Brooke's poetry, based on the 1915 edition and including an introduction, biographical material, sonnets, lyric poems, and poems associated with Brooke's First World War reputation.
A grades 7–8 lesson using Emma Lazarus's The New Colossus to teach author perspective, vocabulary, poetry analysis, immigration history, and perspective writing.
Project Gutenberg collection of Walt Whitman's patriotic, Civil War, democracy, and American poems, including O Captain! My Captain!, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, I Hear America Singing, and other works.
Project Gutenberg's illustrated 1884 edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, with commentary by Edmund C. Stedman and illustrations by Gustave Doré.
Project Gutenberg's full text of T. S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, including its five major sections and notes from the public-domain edition.
Project Gutenberg Volume 5 of the Raven Edition, containing Poe's poems and poetic essays including The Raven, The Bells, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, and many other works.
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