Poetry & Poets, M-P

This page has links for specific poets. Lesson plans and activities related to specific poetry forms or poetic structure can be found on the Poetry Forms page. Poetry no longer under copyright can be found on the Poetry Collections page. Copyright restrictions may prevent contemporary poetry from being available online.

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Archibald MacLeish - The Academy of American Poets
Biography, bibliography, links to related sites.

"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by Christopher Marlowe
This audio file of the poem requires an MP3 player such as QuickTime.

Andrew Marvell
Lesson plans, criticism, links to texts of poems.

Claude McKay - The Academy of American Poets
Biography, bibliography, related links.

Writing Poetry like Pros
This extensive set of lessons includes an activity using Eve Merriam's "Catch a Little Rhyme" in Lesson 2, Group 2.

"How to Eat a Poem" by Eve Merriam
This lesson is designed for 8th graders and focuses on literal and figurative language. It includes a copy of the poem.

Lonely as a Cloud
This lesson on similes is designed for grades 6-8. It uses Eve Merriam's "Willow and Ginkgo" and Robert Burns's "A Red, Red Rose."

John Milton
Lesson plans, online texts, and other resources for teaching Paradise Lost and other texts.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Links to poems.

Biography of Gabriela Mistral
This site at the Nobel e-Museum includes biography, her 1945 speech accepting the Nobel Prize in poetry, and a link to the Mistral site at the University of Chile.

Gabriela Mistral
A brief biography of the Nobel laureate and two poems translated into English.

Gabriela Mistral
Biography, common themes from Mistral's poetry, and a bibliography.

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Ogden Nash
A searchable collection of poetry plus links.

The Passions of Pablo Neruda
Biography and some poems.

"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes
Follow links to listen to an audio file OR to listen and read at the same time.

Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes
This lesson uses Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Noyes's "The Highwayman" to teach vivid imagery and figurative language.

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Wilfred Owen
Lesson plans for teaching "Dulce et Decorum Est," links to other poems.

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Octavio Paz
Biography and lesson resources.

Sylvia Plath
Biography, poetry, and lesson resources.

Edgar Allan Poe
Lesson plans and activities for poetry and prose.

Alexander Pope
Biography, criticism, and teaching ideas for "The Rape of the Lock."

Art in Poetry: Teaching the Imagists
This lesson presents a study of Ezra Pound's poem, "In the Station of the Metro" and the Imagist perception of modern society. Students will be required to write an original two-line poem about modern society and incorporate the poem into a graphic illustration.

If the Psalms Aren't Poetry, They're Useless
Two poets discuss the psalms and differences in translations, including Psalms 23 and 46.

Russian Poet Aleksandr Pushkin
Biography, poetry, analysis, related links.

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