Introduction to Poetry
"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not 'very tired', he is exhausted. Don’t use 'very sad', use 'morose'. "
-Dead Poets Society
Poems
by Marie-Elizabeth Mali
There is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier
by Matthew Rohrer
by Lucille Clifton
by Yusef Komunyakaa
by Pablo Neruda
By Pablo Neruda
by Robert Frost
Fame is the one that does not stay
By Emily Dickinson
by Linda Pastan
by Robert Frost
by Mark Jarman
by Frank O'Hara
e.e. cummings
Noelle Kocot
Maya Angelou
Marie Howe
James Wright
e.e. cummings
William Carlos Williams
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by Walt Whitman
by Mark Strand
by W. S. Merwin
by Sonia Sanchez
by Billy Collins
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
by Jon Loomis
by James Dickey
by Reginald Shepherd
Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child
by Darcy Cummings
by Frank O'Hara
Charlotte Brontë in Leeds Point
by Stephen Dunn
by John Blair
by David Baker
by Toi Derricotte
by Connie Voisine
by Allen Ginsberg
by Nikki Giovanni
by Sharon Olds
by Anne Waldman
by Naomi Shihab Nye
by Kim Addonizio
by Jane Kenyon
by Kay Ryan
by Rita Dove
by Louise Glück
by W. B. Yeats
by Donald Hall
by Gary Soto
by Eleanor Lerman
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
by Derek Walcott
by John Ashbery
by Eavan Boland
Introduction to Poetry Assignment
Pick any 3 poems from this page or poets.org
For each poem, read and reread it until you develop an understanding of it and a connection to it.
Write a companion poem for each poem.
-Your document must include the original poems and your companion poems.
Links
Poets (englishwithlatini)
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How to Read A Poem (poets.org)