Poetry

A model paraphrase of Donne's "The Indifferent."

A model paraphrase of Robert Hayden's "The Whipping."

An exercise in paraphrasing Emily Dickinson's "There's been a Death, in the Opposite House."

A model paraphrase of Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

The questions to ask of any poem: speaker, audience, occasion, setting, purpose, theme, and more.

Lesson plan on allusion and its function in poetry, with Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy" and Cummings's "in Just-."

Lesson plan for analyzing the Yeats and Updike poems in the comparison essay prompt.

Plan for the day students write a timed essay on "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

Lesson plan on the speaker, the listener, and the dramatic irony of Browning's "My Last Duchess."

Lesson plan on two ways to organize an essay that compares two poems.

A follow-up exercise on "Darmok" that links allusion and metaphor to "My Last Duchess."

Plan for viewing the Star Trek episode "Darmok" to see how allusion and metaphor shape communication.