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The following poems are options for memorization and performance for the First Quarter:
Week 1-2: "Storm Ending" by Jean Toomer
Week 3-4: "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
Week 5-6: "Dream within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe
"Oh Captain! My Captain" by Walt Whitman
Week 7-8: "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
"Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud" by John Donne
The following poems are options for memorization and performance for the Second Quarter:
Week 1-2: "Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Week 3-4: Spanish Students: "Diciendo qué cosa es amor" by Jorge Manrique
Latin Students: "The Aeneid: Book I" by Virgil
French Students: "Le Lac" by Alphonse de Lamartine
Week 5-6: Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Week 7-8: Sonnet X by Shakespeare
Sonnet X by Shakespeare
Week 9-10: The best poem you wrote this semester
The following poems may be given as printed handouts during the semester. If you are absent and need to make up work on a poem, you can find it here:
Quarter 1, Unit 1: Imagery - Complete Packet
Elizabeth Bishop - "The Fish"
Jorge Luis Borges - "The Art of Poetry"
Gillian Clarke - "The Year’s Midnight"
Robert Frost - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
Langston Hughes - "Theme for English B"
Ezra Pound - "In a Station of the Metro"
Rainer Maria Rilke - "The Panther"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - "Ulysses"
Dylan Thomas - "Notes on the Art of Poetry"
Jean Toomer - "Storm Ending"
William Butler Yeats - "The Second Coming"
Quarter 1, Unit 2: Sound - Complete Packet
Harry Baker - "Paper People"
Harry Baker - "A Love Poem for Lonely Prime Numbers"
William Blake - "Tyger, Tyger"
Jorge Luis Borges - "Poema de los dones"
Emily Dickinson - "Tell all the truth but tell it slant"
Amanda Gorman - "Miracle of Morning"
William Ernest Henley - "Invictus"
Edgar Allen Poe - "Bells"
Walt Whitman - "Oh Captain! My Captain"
William Butler Yeats - "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Quarter 1, Unit 3: Structure - Complete Packet
Gwendolyn Brooks - "We Real Cool"
Michael Collier - "Brave Sparrow"
ee cummings - "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r"
John Donne - "Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud"
Terrance Hayes - "The Golden Shovel"
Leigh Hunt - "Jenny Kiss'd Me"
John Milton - "Opening Argument" from Paradise Lost
Dylan Thomas - "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night"
Robert Burns - "To a Mouse"
Quarter 2, Ekphrastic: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
Quarter 2, Unit 4: Robert Frost & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
Quarter 2, Unit 5: Maya Angelou & Mary Oliver
Quarter 2, Unit 6: Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman
Quarter 2, Unit 7: Wordsworth & Shakespeare
Quarter 2, Unit 8: T.S. Eliot
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