Quotes from Edgar Allan Poe’s Poetry and Short Stories

These Edgar Allan Poe quotes can be used to trick your colleagues, impress your friends, or terrify your enemies. Here’s a lesson plan. Edgar Allan Poe Quotes Quote: And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. Analysis: This cheerful axiom comes from “The Masque of the Red Death” and refers […]

Examples of Imagery in Poetry with Analysis

Before we get started, here’s a lesson plan for teaching imagery in poetry with a list of poets for teaching imagery. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Imagery Imagery is the use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. You use imagery all the time in every day language when you […]

Teaching Poetry: Examples of Rhythm and Meter in Poetry Lesson Resource

You’re busy and I don’t want to waste your time, so I’m going to give you a sonnet lesson plan pdf right at the start. It’s a good exercise for helping students understand meter and the importance of word choice. Key Points When Teaching Poetry Meter Have the following objectives in mind when teaching poetry […]