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The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” published in 1922, is a significant modernist poem exploring the disillusionment followin...

Lyric Modernist Classroom Poem

9.9 Brilliant

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s *The Rime of the Ancient Mariner* is a Romantic-era poem detailing a sailor’s fateful encounte...

Romantic Narrative Classroom Poem

9.6 Brilliant

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The Canterbury Tales General Prologue

Chaucer’s General Prologue offers a detailed snapshot of late medieval England through a collection of character sketche...

Narrative Medieval Classroom Chaucer

9.6 Brilliant

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a medieval narrative poem written in Middle English around 1390. It tells the story o...

Narrative Medieval Classroom Poem

9.5 Brilliant

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Because I could not stop for Death

Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” explores themes of mortality through a carefully constructed meta...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Dickinson

9.5 Brilliant

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Mending Wall

Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” is a narrative poem published in 1914 examining the conflict between inherited custom and...

Narrative Modernist Classroom Poem

9.1 Excellent

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We Wear the Mask

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask” is a poignant 1895 poem exploring the hidden pain experienced by African Ameri...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Poem

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Cory

Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory” explores the deceptive nature of public perception. The poem details the story...

Narrative Modernist Classroom Robinson

9.1 Excellent

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The Walrus and the Carpenter

Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter” is a Victorian narrative poem from *Through the Looking-Glass*. It tells...

Narrative Victorian Classroom Poem

9.0 Excellent

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Sympathy

Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Sympathy,” published in 1899, employs the powerful image of a caged bird to represent suffering...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Poem

9.0 Excellent

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Tell all the truth but tell it slant

Emily Dickinson’s “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” explores the idea that profound truths are best conveyed indire...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Dickinson

9.0 Excellent

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Out, Out—

Robert Frost’s ‘Out, Out—’ is a poignant narrative poem exploring the sudden death of a teenage boy due to an accident i...

Narrative Modernist Classroom Poem

8.9 Great

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I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” explores themes of obscurity and identity. The poem, written in 1861, is no...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Dickinson

8.9 Great

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a narrative poem by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 in Dramatic Lyrics. It retells...

Narrative Victorian Classroom Poem

8.6 Great

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A Visit from St. Nicholas

"A Visit from St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas") is an 1823 American poem attributed to Clement Clarke M...

Narrative 19TH Century Ceremonial Moore

8.5 Great

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Paul Revere's Ride

Paul Revere's Ride is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1861. T...

Narrative 19TH Century Patriotic Poem

8.4 Great

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A Psalm of Life

"A Psalm of Life" is a lyric poem by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1838 and included in...

Inspirational 19TH Century Classroom Poem

8.1 Great

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The Village Blacksmith

"The Village Blacksmith" is a narrative poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1840 and la...

Lyric 19TH Century Classroom Poem

8.1 Great

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The Song of Hiawatha

The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 narrative poem by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Written in trochaic tetram...

Epic Narrative 19TH Century Poem

7.6 Good

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Evangeline

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an English-language narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. Wri...

Narrative 19TH Century Elegiac Poem

7.5 Good