Poet Project

Poet Project Presentation

For this project, you will be choosing a poet to present and discuss with your classmates. The poet must be from the list that will be provided by your teacher in order to get credit for this project. You will be required to give a short biography presentation on your poet as well as recite one of their poems by memory. You will be expected to talk about the poem and explain why you chose to recite it. This will count as two test grades for this marking period.

1. Choose a poet and present a picture of the poet.
2. Must show full understanding of the poet’s life as a writer
3. Discuss some of their most famous poetry and what made them different.
4. How did society feel about their poetry?
5. Recite the poem
6. Discuss why you chose that poem and what you liked about it .
7. Explain what you understood from the poem and provide a connection.

1. e.e cummings _______________________________

2. Emily Dickinson ______________________________

3. Billy Collins _______________________________

4. Ezra Pound _______________________________

5. Lewis Carrol_______________________________

6. W. B. Yeats _______________________________

7. T.S. Elliot_______________________________

8. Pablo Neruda _______________________________

9. Dylan Thomas_______________________________

10. William Shakespeare__________________________

11. Robert Frost_______________________________

12. Maya Angelou _______________________________

13. Nikki Giovanni_______________________________

14. Gary Soto_______________________________

15. Walt Whitman _______________________________

16. Marge Piercy_______________________________

17. Charles Baudelaire_______________________________

18. Stanley Kunitz_______________________________

19. Gwendolyn Brooks_______________________________

20. Yusef Komunyakaa ________________________________

21. Joseph Rudyard Kipling ____________________________

22. Sylvia Plath ____________________________________