Poets and Poetry - Humble Independent School District



Poets and Poetry

Himel Project

Fall 2011

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Maya Angelou

(n.d.): Literary Image Collection. EBSCO. Web. 3 Oct. 2011.

According to the Literary Reference Center’s glossary for Poetry and Poetic: “One of the major genres of literature, poetry derives from a Greek verb, poiein, meaning “to make,” and poetics refers to the technical and theoretical aspects of poetry. As a “made thing,” poetry artificially arranges language to concentrate and heighten expression. It is closely related to song and chanting in its techniques in that it depends upon the sound effects of words as well as their denotative and connotative meanings. Among the effects are rhythm, line length, and echoic sounds, such as rhyme, assonance, and consonance.”

The definition of poetry is literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

“poetry.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 2011. Web. Oct. 2011.

Famous poets include:

Edgar Allan Poe Geoffrey Chaucer

Lord George Byron Langston Hughes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe John Milton

William Shakespeare Rudyard Kipling

T.S. Eliot Robert Browning

Walt Whitman Elizabeth Barrette Browning

Pablo Neruda Percy Bysse Shelley

Emily Dickinson Sylvia Plath

Maya Angelou Dorothy Parker

Homer Robert Burns

John Keats Boris Pasternak

William Blake Ogden Nash

Robert Frost Edna St. Vincent Millay

William Wordsworth Dante Alighieri

Angelou, Maya

Databases you will find helpful:

Encyclopedia Britannica: Biographical information is available here as well as links to other aspects of the poem or poet you are researching. Great images of the poets and other artists that include MLA format for your citations. Check out the additional website features for great links.

Literary Reference Center: The features allow you to browse by author or by work; within the article you will find additional related information and cross-references. Be sure to utilize the tabs to find biographical information, literary criticism, plot summaries and more. Also note the poems and images tabs as well. This database gives you information on more contemporary and lesser known poets and authors as compared to other databases. For example: do you know Naomi Shehab Nye? Look her up and find out what Mrs. Parrish has in common with her.

Literature Criticism Online: Much more scholarly database. The Browse Topics feature is nice and helpful but using the index may pose challenges for you. You will not find the contemporary poets you find in the Literary Reference Center.Browsing the topics gives you an idea of topics for your own research. The articles are in PDF format and may be challenging to read- note the link that allows you to see the format for reading more easily.

GALE Virtual Reference Library (ebooks): Poetry for Students can be found in this eBook collection by typing in your poet’s name or the title of the poem into the search window found at the top of the home page. Look right below the title of the article and if you see Poetry for Students, you will find biographical information, summaries of the lines of the poem, the text of the poem and criticism. Remember that the works cited can be found by clicking on the print button and when you see the page, your works cited will be at the top of it.

** Remember that you must get a copy of the database passwords as you cannot access these at home without the usernames and passwords!**

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