MAP LITERARY FOR THE CLASSROOM: EXAMPLES OF POETIC TECHNIQUES/THEMES
ALLITERATION, CONSONANCE, SOUND
Aaron Anstett, “Actionable”
Genevieve Kaplan, “(I’m) seated, or imagining”
ALLUSION
Joshua Ware, “Zizek Eats His Dirty Socks for Breakfast”
Alexandria Peary, “The Mou-Mou of Enlightenment”
ANAPHORA (or LIST POETRY)
Keegan Lester, “the poem wherein I write and rewrite…”
Mathias Svalina, ‘Steps’ poems
APOSTROPHE
Rodney Nelson, “Subsidence”
DEATH
Bob Hicok, “Things I never would have said at the job interview”
DETAILS/SPECIFICS/CONCRETE IMAGERY
Jeffery Berg, “Mall 1990”
Alexandria Peary, “Instant Transmission of Knowledge”
END-STOPPED VS ENJAMBED LINE BREAKS
Joe Lennon, “Part I”
Christopher Liebow, Excerpts from Riparia Suite
HYPERBOLE
Anne Gorrick, “Lipstick Distances”
METAPHOR
Robert Krut, “Radioing the Flood”
Rob MacDonald, “How to Survive Childhood”
NATURE
Kaitlyn Burd, "Nature With You in It"
Joseph Massey, “Wrack Zone”
PERSONIFICATION
Molly Brodak, “A Kicked Top”
Sam White, “Currents”
POINT OF VIEW
1st Person: Charlie Moses, "Dear Friend"
2nd Person: Kaitlyn Burd, "Nature With You in It"
3rd Person: Pamela Woolford, "This is What Happened"
SHOWING VS TELLING
Henry Israeli, “The Book of Fixed Stars”; “A Devilish Mercy”
Vanessa Couto Johnson, “The tabletop game”
SIMILE
Jim Daniels, “We Closed the Bar Like Workmen”
SUPERHEROS
John Buckley and Martin Ott, “Batman’s Other Utility Belt”
ALLITERATION, CONSONANCE, SOUND
Aaron Anstett, “Actionable”
Genevieve Kaplan, “(I’m) seated, or imagining”
ALLUSION
Joshua Ware, “Zizek Eats His Dirty Socks for Breakfast”
Alexandria Peary, “The Mou-Mou of Enlightenment”
ANAPHORA (or LIST POETRY)
Keegan Lester, “the poem wherein I write and rewrite…”
Mathias Svalina, ‘Steps’ poems
APOSTROPHE
Rodney Nelson, “Subsidence”
DEATH
Bob Hicok, “Things I never would have said at the job interview”
DETAILS/SPECIFICS/CONCRETE IMAGERY
Jeffery Berg, “Mall 1990”
Alexandria Peary, “Instant Transmission of Knowledge”
END-STOPPED VS ENJAMBED LINE BREAKS
Joe Lennon, “Part I”
Christopher Liebow, Excerpts from Riparia Suite
HYPERBOLE
Anne Gorrick, “Lipstick Distances”
METAPHOR
Robert Krut, “Radioing the Flood”
Rob MacDonald, “How to Survive Childhood”
NATURE
Kaitlyn Burd, "Nature With You in It"
Joseph Massey, “Wrack Zone”
PERSONIFICATION
Molly Brodak, “A Kicked Top”
Sam White, “Currents”
POINT OF VIEW
1st Person: Charlie Moses, "Dear Friend"
2nd Person: Kaitlyn Burd, "Nature With You in It"
3rd Person: Pamela Woolford, "This is What Happened"
SHOWING VS TELLING
Henry Israeli, “The Book of Fixed Stars”; “A Devilish Mercy”
Vanessa Couto Johnson, “The tabletop game”
SIMILE
Jim Daniels, “We Closed the Bar Like Workmen”
SUPERHEROS
John Buckley and Martin Ott, “Batman’s Other Utility Belt”