Connecting the Visual to the Verbal in the Classroom

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 10.01.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Poetic Forms
  5. Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Annotated Bibliography
  8. Appendix 1
  9. Appendix 2
  10. Appendix 3
  11. Resources for Teachers
  12. Resources for Students
  13. Notes

Examining Poems about Love and Loss

Karen W. Scher

Published September 2010

Tools for this Unit:

Resources for Students

Poetry Reading List

Sonnets

"Sonnet 18" Shakespeare

"Sonnet 130" Shakespeare

"Sonnet 138" Shakespeare

"How do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"A Superscription" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti*

"Paradise Saved (Another Version of the Fall)" by AD Hope*

"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop

"Sonnet 5" by Seamus Heaney

Ecphrasis

"Not My Best Side" UA Fanthorpe*

Elegies

"Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter" by John Crowe Ransom

"Death" by William Carlos Williams

"A Curse Against Elegies" by Anne Sexton

"Nightfishing" by Gjertrud Schnackenberg*

"Ivan Generalic" by Gjertrud Schnackenberg*

(Ecphrastic poems are noted with an asterisk. Most images that pair with these poems can be found online using a simple Google search)

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