19th century
Emily Dickinson (various poems)
Paul Dunbar (We wear the mask)
H. Wordsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life)
Walt Whitman (When I heard the learned astronomer)
Phyllis Wheatley (Hymn to Humanity)
20th century
William Carlos Williams (Red Wheelbarrow)
Robert Frost (Stopping by the Woods…Road Not Taken)
Langston Hughes (Dream Deferred)
Gwendolyn Brooks and Nikki Giovanni
Latino Poets
Poetry Analysis Sheet
1. What phrases are repeated?
2. What images (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)?
3. Explain metaphors.
4. What rhythm or rhyme scheme does the poem have? How does this affect meaning?
5. What is the theme or message of the poem? Give text examples from each stanza.
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