Choose Your Own Reading Adventure: Poetry

Choose Your Own Reading Adventure: Poetry

1. Choose one of the poems below.

2. If the content bothers you for any reason, choose a different poem.

3. Complete the Online Reading Literature Analysis Form for the text you selected. Share your completed form with Mrs. Spriggs when finished (rspriggs@wcpss.net).

Poetry Links

• Wilfred Owen's Poem "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
• Federico Garcia Lorca's Poem "The Guitar"
• Czeslaw Milosz's Poem "Song of a Citizen"
• Wislawa Szymborska's Poem "In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself"
• Gabriela Mistral's Poem "Pine Forest"
• Octavio Paz's Poem "Wind, Water, Stone"
• Bei Dao's Poem "The Boundary"
• Y Nhi's Poems
• Venus Khoury-Ghata's Poem "Where Do Words Come From?"
• Yehuda Amichai's Poems
• Derek Walcott's Poems
• Poems by Wole Soyinka
• Poems by Shut Ting
• Anna Akhmatova's Poetry
• Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Poems by Arthur Rimbaud
• Paul Verlaine's Poetry
• Charles Baudelaire's Poetry
• Poetry by Victor Hugo
• Alexander Pushkin's Poetry
• Marie de France's Poetry
• Poems by Rumi
• Khaled Mattawa's Poetry
• Arabic Poetry