The Sound of Words: An Introduction to Poetry

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.04.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Objectives
  4. Strategies
  5. Lesson 1
  6. Lesson 2
  7. Lesson 3
  8. Bibliography for Teachers
  9. District Standards
  10. Endnotes

The Sound of Poetry

Melissa Anne Dailey

Published September 2009

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography for Teachers

    

Atwood, Margaret. "Siren Song," www.poetryfoundation.org

Bishop, Elizabeth. "At the Fishhouses," www.poetryfoundation.org

Frost, Robert and Latham, Edward Connery. "Once By the Pacific," The Poetry of Robert Frost: the collected poems, complete and unabridged. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1969.

Frost, Robert. "The Imagining Ear," in Collected Poems, Prose & Plays. New York: Library of America 1995.

Frost , Robert. "The Last Refinement of Subject Matter: Vocal Imagination," in The Collected Prose of Frost. Mark Richardson, ed. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007.

Frost, Robert & Latham, Edward Connery. "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep," The Poetry of Robert Frost: the collected poems, complete and unabridged. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1969.

Gluck, Louise. "Penelope's Song," Meadowlands. Hopewell: Ecco Press, 1996.

Hass, Robert. "Listening and Making." Twentieth Century Pleasures. New York: Ecco, 1984.

This article discusses meter and how it relates to the meaning of poetry.

Hayden, Robert. "The Middle Passage," Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems. New York: Liverlight, 1975.

Hayden, Robert. "The Diver," Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems. New York: Liverlight, 1975.

Hugel, Stan, comp., Shanties from the Seven Seas. Mystic, CT : Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1994.

This text provides excellent background information on shanties. It is primarily a compilation of shanties.

Pound, Ezra. "The Cantos of Ezra Pound," The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York: New Directions, 1972.

Pound, Ezra. "The Seafarer," Collected Early Poems. New York: New Directions, 1976.

Rich, Adrienne Cecile. "Diving into the Wreck," Diving into the Wreck. New York: W.W Norton & Company, 1973.

Stevens, Wallace. "The Idea of Order at Key West," The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1954.

Swenson, May. "Come In Go Out," Nature: Poems Old and New. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000.

Swenson, May. "Overboard," Nature: Poems Old and New. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000.

Wilbur, Richard. "Junk," The Poems of Richard Wilbur. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963.

Williams, William Carlos. "The Yachts," The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams Volume I (1909-1939) New York: New Directions, 1986.

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