Thursday, March 12, 2015

Emily Dickinson

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Robert Frost

In Flanders Fields

Siegfried Sassoon

Shel Silverstein 

Dr. Suess

1. Find examples of poems wherein the structure of the poem is distracting from the intention, meaning or emotional content. 

Perhaps the poem is written in such a way as to reduce the sense of complexity or humanity. 

Try to explain one that is the worst offender - what is the problem. 

e.g. A poem where the rhyme is so stifling or tight that it becomes childish

2. Find examples o’ poems wherein the structure is utilized properly, or in some way contributes to the meaning or the intensity or the impact or emotionality 

eg the Sassoon poem about the suicide of the soldier in a childish rhyme

3. Find examples of poems wherein all there is is structure. There is precious little else. 

4. Find a child’s poet or poem wherein the meaning is actually fairly intense and layered.