Create Your
Own Poe-M
In this activity, students use the words
provided to create a poem that
represents Edgar Allen Poe’s
tone, mood, and rhythm.
Created By: Claire Lawyer
Think like a gothic poet!
madness
sad
now
tale
door
move
sorrow
clash
darkness
resemble
within
melody
angel
eternal
funeral
fully
formless
leaping
mourn
terror
beneath
see
luminous
nameless
black
whose
whispering
wrangling
thy
melancholy
rain
chains
window
misty
unquiet
chills
tower
midnight
that
grave
mad
jangling
horror
bewitched
crawling
over
heart
winds
clash
fly
phantom
breathes
amid
vast
nothing
forms
lie
like
they
weeping
wisdom
rush
mutter
upon
invisible
Directions: Use the words in the boxes above and your answers in the worksheet that
was attached to this to create a Gothic poem.
YOU MUST USE ALL BUT four WORDS
Here is a list of free words you can use whenever you need them:
but
an
its
to
the
was
by
she
a
he
and
it
in
for
Think about how edgar allan poe created tone and mood…
His use of descriptive words helped to increase
The sense of unease danger and terror…
If you were Poe, and starting the
process to create a new poem,
What name would you choose to represent your heroine?
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What would your setting be?
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What would your topic or theme of the poem be?
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In the space below create your Poe Esque poem
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