Poems About Choices

by Jessica Cohn

Overview

This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of poems about choices written by people from different places and times. It gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poems. It equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and it explains the techniques poets use to create their effects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781432995607
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	Experiencing Poetry
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	900L (what's this?)
Age Range:	11 - 16 Years

Table of Contents

Experiencing Poetry About Choices 4

"The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost 18

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" Alfred Lord Tennyson 18

"Catrin" Gillian Clarke 24

"Southern History" Natasha Trethewey 30

"A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love" Lady Mary Wroth 34

"Choices" Nikki Giovanni 40

"Love, Poem 1: Choice" Emily Dickinson 44

Putting It All Together 50

Write Your Own Poem About Choices 54

Bibliography 58

Glossary 59

Find Out More 62

Index 64

Editorial Reviews

This six-volume poetry set presents readers with thematic poetry written during various time periods, mixing William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson with contemporaries like Gary Soto and Nikki Giovanni. The two titles reviewed introduce the poems and then spend a few pages giving readers the tools to interpret the poems. The tools vary but incorporate the poem’s structure, the historical period, the poet’s biographical information, and how the book’s theme plays out in the poem. Each title ends with writing your own poetry. . . .will be most useful for school media centers and for classroom libraries that have a focus on creative writing.

VOYA