English II Poetry Unit

Kailee Ammons

Staff Reporter

            This past week, students in the sophomore English classes have been learning about different types of poetry. Students are being taught the elements of writing and how to apply them to their own poems.

            In class, students have worked on the parallel structure of poems by writing their own versions of In Two Minds and The Summer I Was Sixteen. In this assignment, students were asked to find a visual representation for their poem, and then reflect on their choice of words and visual.

            Students were also taught how to create blackout poems. In this type of poetry, one selects a page from a book (typically printing off a copy of the page) and then chooses certain words to create their masterpiece. Any words that are not chosen are colored over, traditionally, in black marker.

            On Wednesday, students were asked to analyze a piece written by the well-known poet, Robert Frost. This required students to look past the surface of the poem and find a deeper meaning in it. After doing so, people had many different opinions of what the poet was trying say or how he was trying to make the reader feel.

           “In my opinion, poetry could be a very complex but beautiful way to express your feelings onto paper,” said Bailey Peterson, sophomore. “It’s good that our English class is having us read different types of poetry because it helps us with different types of writing.”