Famous Poems and Poets
Visit the following Web sites. Find five poems you enjoy.
Copy those poems down and add them to your poetry folder for later. In addition,
include information about the author.
- Life
and Works of Famous American Poets is a research
project that profiles famous American poets—e.e. cummings, Emily Dickenson,
Edgar Allen Poe, Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Eugene Field,
Walt Whitman, Ogden Nash, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Carl Sandberg—with
biographies and sample poems.
- 101
great poems
- Poems
for kids
- Poetry
all sorts
- Jeff's
Poems for Kids
Research one of the following topics and make an idea
web of their unique characteristics. Make sure you have enough on the web so
that you can use it to make a poem.
Topics
- Politics
- Sports
- School
- Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall
- Music
- Computers
- Animal
- Clothing
Last updated December 30, 2004