Poet Project Presentation

For this project, you will be choosing a poet to present and discuss with your classmates. The poet must be from the list that will be provided by your teacher in order to get credit for this project. You will be required to give a short biography presentation on your poet as well as recite one of their poems by memory. You will be expected to talk about the poem and explain why you chose to recite it. This will count as two test grades for this marking period.

1. Choose a poet and present a picture of the poet.
2. Must show full understanding of the poet’s life as a writer
3. Discuss some of their most famous poetry and what made them different.
4. How did society feel about their poetry?
5. Recite the poem
6. Discuss why you chose that poem and what you liked about it .
7. Explain what you understood from the poem and provide a connection.

1. e.e cummings- Kawaan

2. Emily Dickinson- Melissa

3. Billy Collins- Capo

4. Ezra Pound - Travis

5. Lewis Carrol- Kaylin

6. W. B. Yeats- Katina

7. T.S. Elliot- Yami

8. Pablo Neruda- Jose Q

9. Dylan Thomas- Hailee

10. William Shakespeare-Manny 
 
11. Robert Frost- Wesley

12. Maya Angelou- Andy

13. Nikki Giovanni__Cynthia

14. Gary Soto_Genesis

15. Walt Whitman _Cristina
 
16. Marge Piercy___Yogeidy

17. Charles Baudelaire_Juan

18. Stanley Kunitz_Angel

19. Gwendolyn Brooks__Sahara

20. Yusef Komunyakaa _Jesse

21. Joseph Rudyard Kipling _Caitlyn

22. Sylvia Plath _Rosemary

23. William Carlos Williams----- Silvestre

24. May Swenson- Taiona

25. Langston Hughes- Brandon

Mid-Term Break

I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying--
He had always taken funerals in his stride--
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble,'
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

 

 

Writing response: Look at the progresson of the poem, how does it help our understanding of how the speaker felt on that day? Connect to the poem by thinking of a time where an event changed your life.