A World of Poetry

About this curriculum

This is the poetics book in Level 3 of the MCT language arts curriculum. A World of Poetry  builds on the first two books in the MCT poetics program but goes even further into the details of good poetry. This volume is built on comparisons of poetic and scientific observations of nature and the world around us. As with the other poetics books, the design of this book has been meticulously attended to so that it highlights the points in the text with beautiful and interesting visuals. Among the featured topics are alliteration, assonance, consonance, end stopped versus enjambed lines, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, eye rhyme, near rhyme, poetic feet, iambs, trochees, dactyls, spondees, amphibrachs, amphimacers, pyrrhics, Shakespearan sonnets, Petrarchan sonnets, ballads, rime royals, limericks, haiku, similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophes, and the grammar of poetry. There are many poems in the book that illustrate the poetic elements discussed, including ones by T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Houseman,…