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English 9 - Poetry Unit
Assignments
Please be sure you have read
and have a thorough understanding of the following poems found in your
anthology Adventures in Reading and
in your class handouts.
In a paragraph form,
interpret the poems which Mr. Gen assigns as being homework.
1. What message/story does the poet convey? In other words, what
does the poem mean?
2. Discuss the theme of each poem.
"Blackie, the Electric
Rembrandt" Thomas Gunn p. 258
"Yet Do I Marvel" Countee
Cullen 255
"Cargoes" John
Masefield 252
"A Narrow Fellow in the
Grass" Emily
Dickenson 250
"There Will Come Soft
Rains" Sara
Teasdale 259
"The Fawn" Edna
St. Vincent Millay 262
"Ex-Basketball
Player" John
Updike handout
"At Seventeen" Janice
Ian handout
"Fifteen" William
Stafford handout
“Mirror” Sylvia
Plath handout
"Meeting At Night" Robert
Browning 264
"To Satch" Samuel
Allen 249
"Dream Deferred" Langston
Hughes 254
"Empty House" Stephen
Spender 265
"Flying Crooked" Robert Graves 266
"Lament for
Non-Swimmers" David
Wagoner 267
"The Day Is Done" Henry
W. Longfellow 269
"Eldorado" Edgar
Allan Poe 285
"Next!" Ogden
Nash 286
"The Shell" James
Stephen 288
Psalm 96 King
James Version 290
"Four Little Foxes" Lew
Sarett 293
"Getting Across" Carter
Revard 301
"Good People: Mike
Carlin handout
"Incendiary" Vernon
Scanell handout
"At Woodward's
Gardens" Robert Frost 304
"Art Review" Kenneth
Fearing 306
"I Wandered Lonely As a
Cloud" William
Wordsworth 311
"Lord Randall" anonymous 319
"Silence" Edgar
Lee Masters handout
"Sound of Silence" Paul
Simon handout
“So Young” Corrs handout
“On the Pulse of the Morning” Maya Angelou handout
"The Castle" Edwin
Muir 323
"Uphill" Christian
Rosetti 327
"So We'll Go no More a
Roving" Lord
Byron 329
Sonnet 36 Wiliam
Shakespeare handout
"The Seven Ages of
Man" William
Shakespeare 325
Sonnet 55 William
Shakespeare 295