This unit concentrates on British poems that reflect the universal themes of nature, love, and death/dying. The four lessons that focus on nature consider it from a variety of perspectives, particularly emphasizing images, figures of speech, and symbols. The four lessons on love explore many moods, including determination, humor, playfulness, devotion, irony, and awe. The four lessons on dying examine death as an inevitable part of life, possibilities of an afterlife, and attitudes toward one’s own death and the deaths of others.

Lessons examine poets’ uses of imagery, figurative language, tone, and other devices. Students engage in creative thinking and writing. Through individual and group activities, students read, research, reason, and analyze