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.