Poetry Rock Schools Reaches Milestone

Poetry Rocks Schools now has more than 20 poems in our lesson materials, some used with more than one genre of music.

Sample of Poems in Lesson Plans

Poem	Author	Musical Style	Level(s)
A Dream Within a Dream	Edgar Allan Poe		HS/MS
Abandoned Farmhouse	Ted Kooser	Country	MS
Acquainted With the Night	Robert Frost	Pop with Rap	HS/MS
Acquainted With the Night	Robert Frost	Rock	HS/MS
And Still I Rise	Maya Angelou	R&B	HS/MS
Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night	Dylan Thomas		HS
Dreams	Langston Hughes	Electro Pop	HS/MS
Fire and Ice	Robert Frost
First Fig	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Electronic	HS
First Fig	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Rock	HS
I Am Waiting (age of anxiety)	Lawrence Furlinghetti	Pop/Dance	HS/MS
in Just- (balloon man)	E.E. Cummings
Its Not What You Look At	Henry David Thoreau	Reggae/R&B	HS
My Last Duchess	Robert Browning		HS SR
Ode to Family Photographs	Gary Soto		MS
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots	Mark Twain	Electronic	HS/MS
In Paris With You	James Fenton	Pop	HS
Poison Tree	William Blake	Rock	HS/MS
There is No Remedy for Love	Henry David Thoreau	Pop Rock	HS/MS
Road Not Taken	Robert Frost	Rock/Pop	HS/MS
Seeing the World	Steven Herrick		MS
Serenade	Edgar Allan Poe		HS
Sonnet 29 & Sonnet 30	William Shakespeare	Rap/Pop	HS
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock	T.S. Eliot
The Lynching	Claude McKay		HS
The Morning After	Langston Hughes
To an Athlete Dying Young	A.E. Housman		HS/MS
Widening Circles	Rainer Maria Rilke	Pop Rock
I Went Down to the Woods	Henry David Thoreau	Modern Rock/Pop	HS