Poetry Project (100 points total)
The Poetry Project demands that you deal with ONE poem for the entire project. You must
choose a Romantic poet (see list of poems to choose from—no two students can do the same
poem in the same class!! We will select poems first thing on Thursday 3/7 by random order. The
final project will have three major components.
You will be given ample class time in the library to research, write, and construct your
project. SPEND YOUR TIME WISELY!! Note: each section has a different due date! You
must complete the steps in this order!
1. Technical Dissection (20 pts): You need to complete a TP-CASTT analysis of your
poem. Please provide a clean typed copy of your poem as well as the TP-CASTT
dissection (also typed!). Do not COMBINE the two. I need a clean untainted typed copy
of your poem to reference for assessment. TP-CASTT explanatory handout is attached.
DUE DATE: Start of class on Monday 3/11. (Lab days: Th 3/7 and F 3/8)
2. Poet’s Corner (50 pts): This research paper will have four objectives:
1. To provide a quick biographical intro to your poet.
2. To provide an informed description of the typical features (signature elements) of
the poet’s body of work and what people say about this poet’s body of work.
3. To provide an explanation as to what extent your selected poem is “typical” of
this poet’s work.
4. To incorporate at least three quotes in your Poet’s Corner essay.
 Format: At least 1.5 pages in length (double spaced, 12 font, Times
New Roman or Arial)
 Includes parenthetical citation for quotes and paraphrases (anything
you researched should be cited!) and a works cited
Poet’s Corner DUE DATE: Start of class on Tuesday 3/19. (Lab days: TuFr 3/12-3/15)
3. Digital Presentation of Poem and Poet (30 pts): This will include the entire transcript
of the poem presented with text and images in Photostory 3 format (or another
presentation mode if you would like- but it must have SOUND). Accuracy is critical; be
very careful about capitalization and line division! This presentation should also include a
brief biography of the poet. Be sure to include a title slide (title of poem and poet as well
as your name) and a WORKS CITED slide for the poem, the source(s) for the
biographical information, and any music credits you might need to include. Presentation
Due Date: End of class on Wed 3/27. MUST SAVE IT TO THE SHARED DRIVE
FOLDER FOR YOUR HOUR!! SAVE AS YOUR FULL NAME!!! (lab days: MonWed, 3/25-3/27)
OVERALL HELPFUL HINTS: The following resources in our library will be helpful:
Contemporary Literary Criticism (R808.94), Dictionary of Literary Biography ( R810.9DIC),
Webster’s Biographical Dictionary, Who Was Who in America, Who’s Who in America,
American Biography, Who’s Where in Books, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism,
Contemporary Authors.
Overall, in your project (all three parts combined), you must use at least three
different sources, only one of which may be a “popular” encyclopedia
(Brittanica, World Book Encyclopedia). One other must be either subject
encyclopedias or other specialized sources (see list above). The remaining
source must be electronic.
Poets and Poems to choose from (I would suggest that you pick a first, second and third choice!)
** IF you are interested in a different poem by one of the following poets, bring a copy of the
poem to class on Thursday 3/7!
Early Romantic Poets:
William Wordsworth (473):
“She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”
“Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known”
“A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”
“London, 1802”
Lord Byron (526):
“She Walks in Beauty”
“On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth
Year”
“There be None of Beauty’s Daughters”
“We’ll Go No More A-Roving”
“When We Two Parted”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (542):
“A Lament”
“The Moon”
“Music, When Soft Voices Die” (“To -------“)
“Night”
“Remorse”
“Sonnet: England in 1819”
“A Dirge”
John Keats (556):
“Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou
Art”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“To Autumn”
Later Romantics/Victorian Poets:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (620):
“Crossing the Bar”
“Tears, Idle Tears”
“Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”
“From In Memoriam-“Any one of the
numbered sections (five of them are in your lit
book)
Robert Browning (638):
“Meeting at Night”
“Prospice”
“The Lost Mistress”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (668):
“Grief”
“How Do I Love Thee”
“If Thou Must Love Me, Let it Be for Nought”
Any of her Sonnets (browse on-line sites)
Matthew Arnold (647):
“To Marguerite—Continued”
“Dover Beach”
Thomas Hardy (652):
“The Man He Killed”
“Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave?”
** Check out the rubrics on my CWBL
webpage!