Poetry Workbook for Years 9 & 10
Five Senses Skillbuilders no. 34
Poetry exercises for Year 9 & 10 students, including sample answers.
The workbook contains units on:
- Simile, with If We Should Die by Claude McKay
- Simile, with Frozen Charlotte by Natalie Merchant
- Contrast, with Nurse's Song by William Blake
- Metaphor, with Deeper Water by Paul Kelly & Randy Jacobs
- Metaphor, with Mending Wall by Robert Frost
- Metaphor, with Prosperity by Michael Dransfield
- Metaphor, with Brick by Ben Folds
- Irony, with A Slice of Wedding Cake by Robert Graves
- Analogy, with Digging by Seamus Heaney
- Dramatic Monologue, with Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
Suggested answers are included at the end of the workbook.