Original Poetry Reflection: "Where I'm From"
For my third original poem, I chose a free-verse poem that I wrote for my family based on George Ella Lyon's poem of the same title. I...
Original Poetry Reflection: Youth
I am surrounded by youth every day, both at work by my students and at home by my son. I am young myself, at least relatively young for...
Visualization Reflection: Video for "Variation on the Word Sleep" by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's "Variation on the Word Sleep" is an image-rich free-verse poem playing with the ideas of sleep and dreams--sleeping...
Original Poetry Reflection: So, Your Kid's a Mutant
"So, Your Kid's a Mutant" is a poem written in mixed meter about a dear friend's child named Wren who suffered from a seizure disorder in...
Theme Reflection: "I subtracted myself from our combination"
Billy Collins, former poet laureate of the United States, bends toward satire in his work. His poem "Sonnet" pokes fun at the conventions...
Theme Reflection: Why live? It's just too inconvenient to consider other options...
Like Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Dorothy Parker's poem "Resumé" subverts the expectations of the reader by making light of a serious topic....
Theme Reflection: When Your Lover Says You Aren't Easy on the Eyes...
Sonnets have the reputation of expressing ultimate true love-- the kind of love so intense, so special, that it must be immortalized in...
