Poem List for Teachers and Students (can be found easily online at poemhunter.com or poets.org)
These poems can be used as I have suggested in the body of the unit or rearranged to your tastes. The ones that you do not use for the first five weeks can be used for the Culminating Assessment.
"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
"Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas
"Men at Forty" by Donald Justice
"My Father on His Shield" by Walt McDonald
"My Father's Hat" by Mark Irwin
"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
"Parents" by William Meredith
"The Idea of Ancestry" by Etheridge Knight
"The Gift" by Li-Young Lee
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
"Whose Mouth Do I Speak With" by Suzanne Rancourt
"Working Late" by Louis Simpson
"Yesterday" by W.S. Merwin
"my father moved through dooms of love" by E.E. Cummings
"The Cow" by Ogden Nash
"This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams
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