I just started a poetry unit in my English class, and the teacher wants us to bring in poems to be analyzed in class. Does anybody know any interesting poems that i could use? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

just get a book with poems by walt whitman and you should easily find an interesting one in the collection

love song for j alfred prufrock

i'm not a poem fan either, but i liked this one.

The opening got me:


This post was edited by carteblanche on May 26 2013 11:34pm

might be a little long for the purpose intended
but if length does not play a role t s eliot has a few good one
my favourite of his is 'the waste land' though

It's certainly great, but probably a bit over the head of someone just starting out. For more accessible stuff, you might try Robert Frost.

"Mother to son"
hidden gem/classic any seasoned english teacher would gasm over