ADVANCED PLACEMENT POETRY

These 34 lessons and 56 reproducible handouts promote direct involvement with the words, patterns, and imagery of poems. The lessons focus on such topics as “The Poem Itself: The Structure of Meaning,” “In the Land of Allusion,” “Order in Disorder,” and “Playing the Role of the Critic: All the World’s an Audience.” Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, John Donne, Stephen Crane, and William Blake are among the poets studied. Index. Bibliography. Center for Learning. 245 pages.