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- “They Flee from Me” by Sir Thomas Wyatt. What can attitude tell us? To help students find out, begin by asking who owns the action of each stanza in this poem.
- “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake (1789) What can rhyme tell us? At the end of the 18th century, Blake wrote two scathing poems that denounce the abominable practice of exploiting very young children as chimney sweepers.
- “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake (1794) What can point of view tell us? Five years later, Blake wrote a second poem about child chimney sweepers that appeared in Songs of Experience.This much shorter poem begins with the same rhyme scheme as the earlier poem.
- “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. What can syntax tell us? Carroll’s Alice says of “Jabberwocky”: “Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!”
Poetry Out Loud encourages the study of great poetry. The program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about literary history and contemporary life.
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- A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
- The Dying Lover by Gustave Kahn
- Accent by Rupi Kaur
- In The Desert by Stephen Crane
- Mirror by Sylvia Plath
- Ode to Coffee by Urayoán Noel
A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessl...
So long as the child preferred to me such and such a player of the flute or singer to the zither, little I cared that she loved such and such a player of the flute or scratcher of the zither. By the cross-roads I have fallen struck, struck by the thrust of a sword. Whose? player of flute or scratcher of zither? How long the night is to be so slow i...
my voice is the offspring of two countries colliding what is there to be ashamed of if English and my mother tongue made love my voice is her father’s words and mother’s accent what does it matter if my mouth carries two worlds
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; “But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.”
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful‚ The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is part of my heart. But it flick...
from Africa to a Caribbean hill de África a las lomas del Caribe to the smiling ruin of our cities a la feliz ruina de ciudades anoint the neural vessels we refill al matorral neural en donde vive until your acid muse drowns our pities tu agria musa que ahoga soledades return us to our tribe that grew dark beans devuélvenos al semillero isleño cut ...
1. William Wordsworth, ‘ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ’. Wordsworth’s paean to daffodils is written in confidently regular iambic tetrameter, with the rhythm giving Wordsworth’s account of his encounter with the spring flowers an air of deeper Romantic significance which perhaps belies the rather straightforward meaning of the poem.
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding— Riding—riding— The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. Just reading this poem today brings back lots of happy memories of working on it with children in KS2. What an exciting poem!
Listen To Poems. This audio guide contains distinguished actors and poets reading and speaking about poetry. Listen to these tracks to help you or your students master the art of recitation.
Performing poetry can be used to integrate reading across the curriculum. Students read with expression, using their voice and gestures to convey the meaning of the text. With repeated readings of a poem, students become fluent readers and increase their comprehension.
