Setting The Stage
What makes for an effective poetic title?
What if the poem does not have a title?
Emily Dickinson wrote most of her poems focusing on profound themes such as life, death, the afterlife, and the complexity of human relationships, she also wrote a number of poems that were pure fun; they are riddles, because they describe the subject but leave it up to the reader to determine what the subject is. Each stanza offers "clues" in the form of imagery, vivid word pictures.
Response Stance
Invite students to revisit the poems and underline the "clues" each stanza offers in the form of imagery, vivid word pictures. Then, students capture the essence of each poem by creating an apt title.
Invite students to write poems similar to Emily Dickinson just for pure fun; poems that are like riddles, that do not mention the subject, which must be determined by interpreting the poetic devices.
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Hi my name is Thon W. and what I think of grasshopper is that he really got into it with puncuation. I think it was really awesome how he mixed up the letters in grasshopper. So this is another comment by Thon goodnight and goodbye.
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