For my 9th grade English project, I have to research on a 20th century poet. Who should I do?
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Robert Frost \nRobert Frost is one the most well-known and respected authors in American literary history. He highly praised for his images of life in New England, and also his traditional meter and form. Frost resisted following the popular trends in literature, and created some of the most important literature of the twentieth century. During his career he has won four Pulitzer Prizes in poetry\n\nor if you want someone that was doing their own thing\n\nJack Kerouac (1922-1969)\n\nKerouac was the key figure of the "beat" movement of the 1950's. His book "On the Road" captured the minds of young readers and brought the work of the "beat" writers into the limelight. His philosophies on writing and lifestyle have been compared with Whitman and Thoreau. Jack Kerouac continues to be one of the most widely read authors from his time and in recent years interest in his work has risen.
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practice insanely.  read alot of old poetry for inspiration -- you dont' want to sound like everyone else do ya? \n\nRead Byron, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Barret Browning, T.S. Elliot, Walt Whitman, and Shelley.  They'll inspire you, and help you learn words that rhyme that you would never have thought of... (some of the words are only in unabridged dictionaries anymore).
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Walt Whitman.\n\nhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/index.html\n\nhttp://www.wlbentley.com/wwic/WWIChome.html\n\nhttp://www.whitmanarchive.org/\n\nWHITMAN'S MANUSCRIPT DRAFTS OF \n"SONG OF MYSELF"\n\nLeaves of Grass, 1855\n\nSummary and Form \n\nThis most famous of Whitman's works was one of the original twelve pieces in the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass. Like most of the other poems, it too was revised extensively, reaching its final permutation in 1881. "Song of Myself" is a sprawling combination of biography, sermon, and poetic meditation. \n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/whitman/section2.rhtml\n\nI celebrate myself, and sing myself, \nAnd what I assume you shall assume, \nFor every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.\n\nhttp://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/whitman/\n\nhttp://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/whitman_encyclopedia/songofmyself.html\n\nhttp://www.princeton.edu/~batke/logr/logr.htm-1.html\n\nSong of the American Spirit: An Annotation of Section 24 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"\n\nhttp://titan.iwu.edu/~wchapman/americanpoetryweb/whisonan.html\n\nhttp://www.searls.com/whitman.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Yep.  Read more poems.  Frost, Burns, Shelley, others.  Your style may somewhat resemble one, maybe even Poe.  \n\nPoems have emotional content and feeling when they are most memorable, so don't overlook the opportunity when situations provoke similar feelings in you.\n\nYou need a greased track of words though, something that comes with exercise of your language talents.  You will need to become a buddy of dictionaries and thesauri.\n\nTry things like describing the current weather so well that any reader instantly sees what you are seeing.\n\nSimilar exercises are possible, your dog, an unusual friend.\n\nPoems pop out kind of magically sometimes if you are a person affording them such an opportunity.\n\nLook also at the words of songs and hymns.\n\nDo your own rewrites of some of these.  Wonderful new stanzas and poems have come that way.
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You need to narrow this down. What age/grade are you? What have you been reading for class?\nShakespeare?\n20th Century Plays?\nAmerican authors?\n\nNarrow it down some and you'll get better answers.
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Loveyou.com and poetry.com are both good. I have a poem on the first one and at leats 20 to 30 on the other one.
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Stephen King, to name a biggie. Check out Bartelby.com, I think, and some other sites. Just type in "Poe's influence modern authors" and see what you find. MLA sites have some good stuff, too.
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http://once-for-all.blogspot.com/\nhttp://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Angelou.htm\n\nU CAN ALSO TRY GOOGLE OR YAHOO SEARCH\nHOPE THIS HELPS\nMAY I HAVE 10 PTS. PLZ
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Try\n\n15th century in literature \n14th century in literature - Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer \n13th century in literature \n12th century in literature \n11th century in literature \n10th century in literature \nEarly Medieval literature \nAncient literature \nRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_literature"
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if u can type the poem i cn help
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May be at wikipedia.com and type in ..........poem
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Well, I tried but I need to know more about the lines in the poem.   Maybe you'll have better luck with these sites.\n\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/\n\nhttp://www.allexperts.com/user.cgi?m=4&expID=50938&catID=678\n\nhttp://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12717\n\nhttp://www.thent.com/poetry.htm\n\nhttp://lii.org/search/file/poetry
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This is a list of poets.  \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_poets\nHere are some poem sites\n http://www.poetry.com/greatestpoems/list.asp\nhttp://www.bu.edu/favoritepoem/poems/index.html
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try going to your county libraries website there should be reference links look at literary criticism
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Hmmm.. are you studying anything in particular this year that you find interesting?\n\nHere is a website with a number of topics just perfect for a 9th grade project.\n\nhttp://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/9-12.html#\n\nPerhaps some of these might interest you.  They actual have a lesson plan for each topic.
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the sites below are very good. sparknotes should be your first stop with pinkmonkey being a backup. has helped me pass many an english class.
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I know that this is not what you were looking for but maybe it could help you with your essay?\nhttp://www.finchpark.com/arts/poems/poems.htm