then make changes as you come back to the title during and after your analysis. Ask yourself these questions as you go through a poem: What is the main theme of the poem? Who is the narrator ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...

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My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale ...

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The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ...

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network Four steps to figuring out what you want ...

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A month out from election day, co-poets laureate Kathleen Herrmann and Jacalyn Eyvonne are pairing politics with poetry to encourage the community to vote. “Verses for Voters: A Poetic Pulse for ...