1) Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"
2) William Shakespeare "Seven Ages of Man"
3) Emily Dickinson "Hope is the Thing with Feathers"
4) Robert Frost "The Road not Taken"
5) E.E Cummings "I carry your heart with me"
6) Walt Whitman "I hear America singing"
7) Walter D. Wintle "Thinking"
8) Rudyard Kipling "IF"
9)Maya Angelou "I know why the caged bird sings"
10) Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"
Writing a poem
1) Things that make you happy, lifted, positively emotional / things that make you sad, angry, upset
2) What is the general topic or issue?
3) What is the place?
4) What's the time? Determine whether your poem is written in the past, present, future or it has mixed tenses.
5) Write 5 important nouns needed for your poem. Find at least one rhyming word for each.
6) Write 5 important verbs....
7) Write 5 important adjectives ....
8) Description (Choose => describe the feeling, place, nature, weather etc.)
