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Activity 1
Click this link for a good discussion entitled “How to Read a Poem” from Poets.org.
Provided by: Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College. Located at: http://eli.nvcc.edu/. License: CC BY: Attribution
Activity 2
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Click this link to access “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” on the Poets.org website. Click the audio icon, and you will hear a very memorable and dramatic recitation of the poem by the author himself.
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is characterized as a lyric poem .
Click this link to read more about William Butler Yeats on the BMCC database Biography in Context.
OER source: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lake-isle-innisfree
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Activity 3
Click this link for “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost.
Public Domain
Activity 4
Click this link to access the poem “My Last Duchess”
on on the Commonlit website. This is written as a monologue and is an example of a dramatic poem.
Or click this link.
Activity 5
Click this link for my video lecture on “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning.
Public domain
Activity 6
Click this link to access the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Tretheway. This is an example of a narrative poem.
Activity 7
Please read “We Real Cool” and “the mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Activity 8
Click here for a sample of the Japanese style of poetry known as haiku.
Activity 9
Essay 3 Part 1.
This assignment is a poetry flyer/presentation rather than a traditional essay.
You do not have to hand anything in for this. Just make notes for yourself.
Click here for Essay 3 Part 1 Directions
The Poetry Foundation
The American Academy of Poets
How to Find Biographies in BMCC online library
Link to Biography in Context.
Sample Biography in context page (Robert Frost)
Click here for How to Find Copyright-Free Images.
Information about copyright licenses and Creative Commons.
Sample of Essay 3 (Poetry flyer)
PDF view of Sample Essay 3 (Poetry flyer)
Or visit Student Work Gallery on the main menu of this Openlab site.
Link to Canva
Guide to MLA citation from the BMCC library.
Activity 10
Public Domain
Quiz 6
This Quiz will check your understanding of poetry and the works we have read. It will be available from 9:00 a.m. Monday, October 7 to Sunday, October 13, 11:59 p.m. Once the test closes, it will not be available or visible to students. Note that this quiz is open for two weeks.
To access the quiz, please navigate to your Brightspace course. On the “Review Quizzes” module, click “Quiz 6.”
