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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
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. In ancient Greece lyric poems were sung to the music of a stringed instrument called a lyre. Today, however, a lyric poem is generally considered to be a short poem, expressed in vivid language and imagery, which conveys the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.
OER source: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/lake-isle-innisfree
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Activity 3
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.
Activity 4
Click this link for my video lecture on “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning.
Activity 5
Click this link to access the poem “White Lies” by Natasha Tretheway. This is an example of a narrative poem.
Public domain
Activity 6
Please read “We Real Cool” and “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Activity 7
Please click this link to access the Week 11 Discussion Board.
