Analyzes the fourteenth century English poem "Patience" as a commentary on society's reactions to the crises of the latter half of that century. (TO)

Discusses autobiography. States that the author, in writing autobiographical poems, is motivated by a desire to inscribe the memory, to fend off forgetfulness, to stake a claim for significance by shaping a story that signifies. Illustrates with various autobiographical poems. (PA)

Discusses use of the poem in literature classes. (AA)

Describes a teaching technique for introducing student to the beauty of poetry. (RB)

Explores the role of word sounds in the compositional process and investigates whether the reader's responses to the sound structure need to be adjusted if that structure's influence on the emerging meaning is significant. (MM)

Suggests using John Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687" to introduce students to a unit on poetry. (AEA)

Describes a technique for teaching poetry in which the poem is revealed one line at a time, with the students speculating on the content, rhyme, and meter of each successive line. (HTH)

Reflects on the connections between narrative and lived experience, focusing particularly on a set of three dyads that suggest a relationship of tension: (1) storing life/storying life; (2) truth/fiction; and (3) collection/selection. (TB)

Describes a technique for teaching poetry that stresses the importance of students' awareness of the creative devices used by the poet. (RB)

Analyzes Bob Dylan's music in terms of its similarity with the themes and imagery found in the works of T. S. Eliot, concluding that Dylan should be accepted as an important literary figure. (RB)

Outlines eleven specific methods by which poetry can be taught so that the intrinsic questions are raised and the essential experience of the poem achieved. (RB)

Presents a method of teaching poetry that harmoniously combines the study of the content and the structure. (TO)

Summarizes the responses to the Canadian student poetry contest, called Pandora and sponsored by the Canadian Council of Teachers of English, and presents 27 of the 100 winning poems selected from the more than 50,000 submitted. (TO)

Describes a readers theatre approach to poetry in the classroom that involves all students. A readers theatre script of Earl Birney's poem "David" is appended. (HTH)