101 GREAT AMERICAN POEMS

By the end of this unit, students will be able to: explain the relationship between a poem’s form and its content; discuss the nature of poetry and "the poetic"; describe the effect of literary and rhetorical devices on a poem’s emotional impact and meaning; and offer a close reading of a previously unfamiliar poem and support all assertions and interpretations with direct evidence from the text and from authoritative critical knowledge of the genre. ©2016.