Describes a computer program that prompts the user for different parts of speech and formats the words in a haiku-like poetic structure. (Available from "The Computing Teacher," Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403.) (AEA)

Describes how fiction and poetry written many years ago can be brought to life with modern illustrations, using recently published editions of "The Highwayman" and "Hansel and Gretel" as examples. (AEA)

Creative approaches in teaching children to write poetry are given. (MJB)

Just as we learn how to vote by comparing records, by analyzing statements, by fitting what we see and hear to our own measurements, we can develop our own standards in the process of evaluating and enjoying poetry. (RL)

Approaching poetry from the nigh impossible task of defining it leads to a fruitful discovery of some of the most important aspects of it. (DD)

Explains what poetry is by voicing poet's comments on the question. (HOD)

Profiles Eloise Greenfield. Reveals that Greenfield's early love of music echoes in both the form and content of her poetry and prose. Notes that her poems are marked by strong rhythms, expressions of emotion, and a strong sense of children, their voices, and the waystations on their journey through life. (SR)

Common approaches to coping are discussed, followed by a description of the process of women coping with breast cancer as it is expressed in their own poems. Qualitative analysis was conducted on eight poems, with the results opening new avenues for counselors who work with women suffering from breast cancer. (Contains 54 references.) (GCP)

Discusses the construct of childhood in Robert Louis Stevenson's collection of poems, "A Child's Garden of Verses," by employing notions of child development drawn from Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. Finds, from a literary perspective, Stevenson's collection located on the boundaries of romanticism and modernism. (BT)

Quotes the last section of a 17-page poem entitled "Summer at St.-Nazaire." Discusses the various definitions of the word "expertise." Notes that each plant and animal operates in the world from a complex system of expertise. Explains expertise as a journey, not a destination. (PM)

Analyzes the verse of the French poets Stephane Mallarme and Guillaume Apollinaire, contrasting their purposes in suppressing normal punctuation in their work. (MM)

States that Christian Morgenstern made a fundamental point of semantics clear by making any absolute faith in words ridiculous. Describes other pieces of Morgenstern's poetry, and examines its implications in semantic terms. Points out that Morgenstern ridiculed the assumption that what is said must be sensible, as if the world must obey human…

Offers a personal narrative which focuses on the grief process and links personal, literary, and clinical elements. (SR)

Discusses how an elderly Robert Fitzgerald (scholar, classicist, and translator of Homer into English) held a group of freshmen and sophomore students in a New England boarding school spellbound with his tales of growing up, choosing a career as a translator and scholar, and the problems of translating Homer. (RS)

The general use of adversative conjunction in (primarily) English and U.S. poetry is outlined. The contention is that the adversative is not merely a grammatical convenience but sometimes a highly functional tool of rhetorical strategy. (36 references) (LB)