ABQmom Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Does anyone have any ideas about how to teach his poetry? Any helpful resources or ideas for projects or ways to analyze it? I'm drawing a blank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 So why do you want to teach his poetry? He's mostly known for his short stories. I can't think that in my many years of taking lit classes I ever had anyone teach one of his poems. That said, I would teach his poetry the same way I would anyone's poetry basic lit focused on poetry information can be applied to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAR120C Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 We did The Raven.... Wrote out the text and marked it for meter and rhyme, found alliteration and consonance/assonance, interesting word choices, etc. But then we did some interesting followup stuff too. We compared it to a rewritten version without the letter E in A Void (Georges Perec), and talked about how much of the sound of the poem was retained even with very different words... We watched a youtube of a Simpsons Halloween episode with Bart as the raven (LOL).... We read a paper Poe wrote about his writing process, called "The Philosophy of Composition", and we read a critical (very critical) essay by T.S. Eliot called "From Poe to Valery". I thought it was a good poem for discussing word choice (especially with Poe's self-analysis and Eliot's criticism), the significance of the sound of the poem (with Perec's rewriting), and issues of performance (The Simpsons). The performance discussion continued with other poems (Allen Ginsberg does a terrible job reading his own poetry!), and the overlap between poetry and song lyrics (Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen). It's not the world's best poem, but it's well known, widely discussed, and accessible.... and I just like it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABQmom Posted August 21, 2012 Author Share Posted August 21, 2012 We did The Raven.... Wrote out the text and marked it for meter and rhyme, found alliteration and consonance/assonance, interesting word choices, etc. But then we did some interesting followup stuff too. We compared it to a rewritten version without the letter E in A Void (Georges Perec), and talked about how much of the sound of the poem was retained even with very different words... We watched a youtube of a Simpsons Halloween episode with Bart as the raven (LOL).... We read a paper Poe wrote about his writing process, called "The Philosophy of Composition", and we read a critical (very critical) essay by T.S. Eliot called "From Poe to Valery". I thought it was a good poem for discussing word choice (especially with Poe's self-analysis and Eliot's criticism), the significance of the sound of the poem (with Perec's rewriting), and issues of performance (The Simpsons). The performance discussion continued with other poems (Allen Ginsberg does a terrible job reading his own poetry!), and the overlap between poetry and song lyrics (Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen). It's not the world's best poem, but it's well known, widely discussed, and accessible.... and I just like it. :) Thanks for the info! And, I know, I like it too :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 We're doing Poe too. The Raven plus some short stories. I found these online... http://www.neabigread.org/books/edgarallanpoe/teachersguide02.php http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/modeling-reading-analysis-processes-411.html?tab=3#tabs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quark Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Does anyone have any ideas about how to teach his poetry? Any helpful resources or ideas for projects or ways to analyze it? I'm drawing a blank. Figuratively Speaking utilizes excerpts from a few of Poe's poems (offhand I remember The Bells, The Raven) to discuss literary terms. Perhaps you could use it as a springboard to analyzing his other poems? A couple more Poe-related resources: Poe Museum An essay on The Raven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABQmom Posted August 23, 2012 Author Share Posted August 23, 2012 We're doing Poe too. The Raven plus some short stories. I found these online... http://www.neabigread.org/books/edgarallanpoe/teachersguide02.php http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/modeling-reading-analysis-processes-411.html?tab=3#tabs Figuratively Speaking utilizes excerpts from a few of Poe's poems (offhand I remember The Bells, The Raven) to discuss literary terms. Perhaps you could use it as a springboard to analyzing his other poems? A couple more Poe-related resources: Poe Museum An essay on The Raven Thanks for these links! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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