Thursday 24 March 2011

Nisha's Top 10 PG 13 poems

These are some of my favorite poets. Most of them deal with realism. I’ve chosen some of their poems that might come useful in classrooms? I am not too good in classifying poems. So, let’s see...

http://www.afropoets.net/nikkigiovanni5.html

Cotton candy on a rainy day (Nikki Giovanni)

Free Verse

More experiential

Secondary 2

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/langston_hughes/poems/16948

Mother to son by Langston Huges

Free Verse again?

Dialogue

All levels

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/langston_hughes/poems/16947

Dream Deferred by Langston Huges

Oh no, I think all of them can be free verse.

Experimental

Secondary 3

http://www.internal.org/Sylvia_Plath/Daddy

Daddy by Sylvia Plath

Historical Drama (based on a Google search) but I think it can be modernist (stream of consciousness)?

Drama/Pain so is it experiential?

Secondary 4

http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Space-Out/638407

Motel Chronicles by Sam Shepard

Free Verse

Emptiness

Secondary 4

http://sharala.blogspot.com/2007/01/poetry-in-prose-virginia-woolf.html

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Prose as poem

Routine and beauty

Secondary 3

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15306

A supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg

Political

Fun, let-loose kind of feel (Beat Writers)

Secondary 4

http://users.rcn.com/jhudak.interport/Jack.html

Haiku by Jack Kerouac

Self reflective?

All levels

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/autumn-song-3/

Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield

Rhyme?

Secondary 2

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/gwendolyn_brooks/poems/4140

We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

Free Verse

Experimental

Secondary 4

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