"Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes can be used as a stimulus for encouraging students to use concrete language and metaphor in writing a poem. Students are asked to imitate the shape and form of the poem and then talk about how it feels to be a poet, find images from other poems they like, imitate other poems, and discuss the difference…

Some uses of the mass media for educating the adolescent are discussed, and the fact that teachers have generally neglected using mass media devices is emphasized. Multisensory stimuli are seen to enhance the excitement and drama of the written page and to be essential to a concept of literacy broad enough to encompass all aspects of critical and…

This booklet describes 22 simple verse patterns which may be used with children at all grade levels to encourage imaginative use of language, sense of form, and written self-expression. Among the patterns are the following: concrete or visual poem, found poem, formal cinquain, acrostic verse, haiku, rhymed riddle, impressionistic poem, terse…

The emergence in Chicano poetry of the language experiments and folk wisdom of the oral traditions of barrio cuentos, corridos, dichos, and actos reveals that this literature is neither fleeting nor novel. Jose Montoya's "Resonant Valley" exemplifies the Chicano's preservation of ancient wisdom and practice in new formal experiments and…

This volume defines, explains, and traces the origins of figures of speech and style in poetry. Using examples from the works of Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Byron, Emerson, and countless other poets--well known or obscure, such forms as similies, analogies, prosopopeia, metonomy, and many others are described. (Author/KS)

Article presented illustrations that reflected the vivid imagination of ninth grade students as well as their accord with the natural environment. (Author/RK)

Teachers of gifted elementary grade children may encourage interaction with poetry through exposure to poems grouped by theme (such as animals), and activities involving the writing or multimedia interpretation of poetry. (DB)

Writing poems about sports is a way to incorporate writing skills in a language experience approach to poetry. (JH)

A university English instructor, frustrated at being unable to stimulate his students to construe the sense of poems and to limit their strong subjectivity, tried using extracurricular reading as a spur toward a more honest and attentive interpretation of poetry. His experiment produced successful and interesting results. (RK)

Describes the diverse responses of eight faculty members and eight graduate students to the poem "Winter Piece" by William Gibson. (DD)

Describes how to base a course in technical writing on the contrast between subjective and objective values and the contrast between poetry and technology. (DD)

Uses Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne Takes You Down" to break down students' initial resistance to studying poetry. (AA)

Describes several exercises useful in helping students learn to revise when they write poetry. (DD)

Describes and defends Koch's approach to teaching students how to write poetry. (DD)