Your poets

Here are the poets that you have chosen that have been approved. If your name isn't on this list, please try some other options and repost your selections.

Yojin’s poets:
1. Robert Frost
2. Maya Angelou
3. Rudyard Kipling

Sara’s poets:
1. Rumi
2. Mary Oliver
3. Sylvia Plath

Nate’s poets:
1. Edgar Allen Poe
2. Robert Browning
3. Li Po

Amber’s poets
1. e e cummings
2. Dylan Thomas
3. Sonia Sanchez

Connor’s poets:
1.George Herbert
2.Adrienne (Cecile) Rich
3.Langston Hughes

Martin’s poets:
1. TS Eliot
2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
3. Pablo Neruda

Hayley's poet:
1. Whitman
2. Eavan Boland
3. ?

Colin’s poets:
1. Emily Dickinson
2. William Shakespeare
3. Gary Soto

Bee’s poets:
1. James Thomson 1700's
2. Saskia Hamilton 2000's
3. Jose Emilio Pacheco 1900's

Poets to ponder...

Here are just a few poets you might want to look into for your project...
• A. R. Ammons
• Guillaume Apollinaire
• Matthew Arnold
• John Ashbery
• W. H. Auden
• Amiri Baraka
• Matsuo Basho
• Marvin Bell
• Stephen Vincent Benet
• Elizabeth Bishop
• William Blake
• Robert Bly
• Eavan Boland
• Anne Bradstreet
• Andre Breton
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Robert Burns
• George Gordon Lord Byron
• Lucille Clifton
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Billy Collins
• Victor Hernandez Cruz
• Dante
• Rita Dove
• John Donne
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Isabella Gardner
• Allen Ginsberg
• Louise Gluck
• Thomas Gray
• Nicolas Guillen
• Robert Hayden
• Anthony Hecht
• George Herbert
• Linda Hogan
• Robert Herrick
• Homer
• Gerald Manley Hopkins
• E. Houseman
• Longston Hughes
• Randall Jarrell
• John Keats
• Galway Kinnell
• Carolyn Kizer
• Kenneth Koch
• Yusef Komunyakaa
• Maxine Kumin
• Stanley Kunitz
• D. H. Lawrence
• Edward Lear
• Li-Young Lee
• Giacomo Leopardi
• Denise Levertov
• Li Po
• Vachel Lindsay
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Federico Garcia Lorca
• Robert Loweell
• Andrew Marvell
• Edgar Lee Masters
• Vladimir Mayakovsky
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• John Milton
• Gabriela Mistral
• N. Scott Momaday
• Marianne Moore
• Ogden Nash
• Naomi Shihab Nye
• Frank O’Hara
• Mary Oliver
• Ovid
• Ron Padgett
• Robert Pasternak
• Fernando Pessoa
• Marge Piercy
• Alexander Pope
• Anne Porter
• Ezra Pound
• Charles Rznikoff
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Theodore Roethke
• Rumi
• Carl Sandburg
• Sappo
• James Schuyler
• Anne Sexton
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Charles Simic
• Louis Simpson
• W. D. Snodgrass
• Gary Snyder
• William Stafford
• Gertrude Stein
• Wallace Stevens
• Lucien Stryk
• May Swenson
• James Tate
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Tu Fu
• Virgil
• Richard Wilbur
• C. K. Williams
• William Carlos Williams
• William Wordsworth
• Charles Wright
• James Wright
• William Butler Yeats

Poetry Project

1. Three short essays (2 pages) based on your personal research of THREE poets’ visions of poetry. These essays may be developed from reading about poets, from videotaped interviews, or from personal interviews with, for example, a local poet. These must include reference to what the poet himself/herself says and examples of his/her poetry. You should also include personal comment on your agreement or disagreement with each poet’s philosophy about poetry. Include Works Cited page for each essay.

• One poet must be from before the 20th Century.
• Diversify your choices.
• Not life of poet…you may need to research this to understand the poet’s philosophy of poetry, but it should not be the focus.

2. One longer essay (4-5 pages) in which you explain your own newly developed vision/philosophy of poetry. Include references to those specific learning experiences that helped you to develop this vision, both over the next several weeks and other life experiences outside this unit that have contributed to your personal philosophy on poetry.

3. A collection of favorite poems that you feel illustrates your poetic philosophy. It should include a minimum of four poems from several different poets, a short analysis of each poem, and your personal comments on why you chose each of these poems.

4. Your own poetry. This may be a series of short poems, two longer poems or a book of poetry ready for publication.

Start your project today!

The Yellow Wallpaper Questions

1. In Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" the narrator makes constant reference to the paper's pattern. What does the pattern symbolize?

• What does the yellow wallpaper come to mean to the narrator?
• What role does the yellow wallpaper play in the story?
• Why does she spend so much time studying the pattern?
• Look at the adjectives that Gilman uses to develop the wallpaper as a symbol and notice how the character of the narrator is tied to the descriptions of the wallpaper.

• Provide textual evidence to support your idea.
  

2. How does the changing description of the wallpaper reflect the narrator's changing character?
3. Why yellow? Why not blue wallpaper (or some other color)?
4. Think about the structure and condition of the mansion. How is the mansion symbolic of something greater than itself?
5. How does Gilman use changes in language (diction, tone) to affect the narrator's shift from seeming sanity to madness?
6. At one point the narrator refers to John…"because he is so wise and because he loves me so." Do you feel John is wise and loving? Give specific examples from the text to support your views.
7. List some instances of contradictory comments about the heroine's room and/or situation.
8. What tone is set throughout the story with the repetition and use of the word "creep"? Does this tone change?
9. Looking at the minor characters, analyze the view of women during this time period. Use the text to support your ideas, supplying specific examples.
10. Which is more injurious to the narrator--the psychological demons or the societal demons she faces?
11. As a reader, do you sympathize with this woman's situation? Is the narrator's paranoia justified or just another aspect of her delusions?
12. Does any one person bear responsibility for the narrator's ultimate madness? If so, who? If not, what or what combination of factors result in her descent?
13. In the introduction of the story, anorexia and bulimia are mentioned. How can we make the connection between these illnesses of today and the yellow wallpaper?
14. Universalize the primary metaphor of the story. How might we/you move from an abhorrence of our yellow wallpaper to a fascination with it only to finally become trapped behind it--a victim of our/your own obsession?

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Ms. Peifer