Poets & poetry
Search poems by topic/keyword by browsing the list. Includes:
- poverty
- various sports
- racism
- childhood, children
- freedom
- nature, water, winter etc.
Poetry Foundation - check out the article on Ecopoetry!
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Includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from the Old English period to the work of living poets today.
Poets.org - Academy of Amercian Poets
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Poetrysoup.com allows you to search contemporary (& traditional) poems by member contributors around the world on all kinds of themes - by key word/topic.
Canadian Poetry Online
University of Toronto. Contemporary & 19th Century Canadian poets & poetry online.
Shadow poetry
Each section contains a photograph of the poet, a short biography, and an average of 12 poems written by the poet.
Poetry explications handout
BBC Bitesize: poetry of character & voice, conflict, nature and war, relationships, place, love & death, treatment of women, control & power, reflections, Seamus Heaney & Dylan Thomas.
These themes are exemplified in some of the work of these well-known poets. These are only a few suggestions to get started:
Poverty: William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Hart Crane, Langston Hughes--wrote about the poor. Sports: Ernest Thayer, William Carlos Williams, A.E Housman. Bullying: Shane Koyczan, spoken word poet. See other poems/themes by Shane at his website. |
War poetry links |