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Poetry Resources

Making Poetry Live in Your Classroom

Use these resources to help your students engage with poetry and deepen their understanding of imagery, metaphor, meter, and rhythm.

Classroom Activities
Ways to help students explore a poet's choice of rhythm, language, and structure.
A Glossary of Literary Terms
A Glossary with Questions
How to Read a Poem
From Modern American Poetry
Reading with Questions
Asking questions about a poem can help you uncover more of its meaning and think about it in new ways.
Rhythm and Meter
How to recognize rhythm in a poem by seeing the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables.

For more resources, visit Poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets.