Poetry Units

"Nature's first green is gold.

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower.

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

Then Eden sank to grief.

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay."

 

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

 

The document "Poetry Analysis Steps" will help initially with your success in analyzing poetry, and you should define and review the terms on the "Terminology" sheet as well. Also, here you will find the poetry units that we will cover during the year. During 1st semester the first poetry unit will cover poems by Anne Bradstreet, Philip Freneau and Native Americans. The second unity will cover Romantic poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the third will cover the Dark Romantic poets Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. During 2nd semester we will look at the Modern poetry of Robert Frost, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, and other Modernists.