Poems About Emotions

by Clare Constant

Overview

This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of poems about emotions written by people from different places and times. It gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poems. It equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and it explains the techniques poets use to create their effects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781432995560
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	Experiencing Poetry
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.38(d)
Lexile:	1010L (what's this?)
Age Range:	11 - 16 Years

Table of Contents

A World of Emotions 4

"Oranges" Gary Soto 8

"Don't Say I Said" Sophie Hannah 14

"nikki-rosa" Nikki Giovanni 18

"Neighbours" Benjamin Zephaniah 22

"As I Grew Older" Langston Hughes 26

"Do not go gentle into that good night" Dylan Thomas 32

"Valentine" Carol Ann Duffy 38

"Sonnet 116" William Shakespeare 44

What Have We Learned? 50

Write Your Own Poem About Emotions 52

Bibliography 58

Glossary 59

Find Out More 61

Index 64

Editorial Reviews

The editor helps the reader to better understand poetry with some step-by-step directions, then concludes with tips for writing poetry about emotions.

"BookMark It: YA Nonfiction" Teacher Librarian

This six-volume poetry set presents readers with thematic poetry written during various time periods, mixing William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson with contemporaries like Gary Soto and Nikki Giovanni. The two titles reviewed introduce the poems and then spend a few pages giving readers the tools to interpret the poems. The tools vary but incorporate the poem’s structure, the historical period, the poet’s biographical information, and how the book’s theme plays out in the poem. Each title ends with writing your own poetry. . . .will be most useful for school media centers and for classroom libraries that have a focus on creative writing.

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