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Mrs. Tyler's Poetry Collection

Poems Used in my English Classes

Void Life

Mark Otuteye

Labels: Language, Model Poem
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Subjects

  • 9-11 (1)
  • A. E. Housman (1)
  • Action (11)
  • Adolescence (10)
  • Africa (1)
  • Age (5)
  • Alliteration (1)
  • Ambiguity (15)
  • American (2)
  • American Dream (1)
  • Animals (6)
  • Assessment (1)
  • Assonance (1)
  • Ballad (1)
  • Baseball (1)
  • Billy Collins (11)
  • Bird (2)
  • Carl Sandburg (4)
  • Carpe Diem (4)
  • Cartoon (1)
  • Challenging Expectations (14)
  • Children (10)
  • Choices (3)
  • Colonialism (1)
  • Coming of Age (16)
  • Communication (4)
  • Comparison (14)
  • Consonance (1)
  • Courage (9)
  • Creativity (1)
  • Cry the Beloved Country (1)
  • Current Events (3)
  • Daughters (3)
  • Death (13)
  • Decisions (11)
  • Description (11)
  • Details (2)
  • Discontent (3)
  • Dogs and Cats (14)
  • E. E. Cummings (2)
  • Edgar Allan Poe (3)
  • Ekphrasis (2)
  • Emily Dickinson (5)
  • Empathy (5)
  • Epitaph (4)
  • Fairy Tale (7)
  • Family (16)
  • Fathers (24)
  • Fear (3)
  • Figurative Language (6)
  • First Days (14)
  • Forgiveness (2)
  • Frankenstein (1)
  • Games (11)
  • Gothic (4)
  • Grammar (4)
  • Haiku (2)
  • Halloween (1)
  • Hamlet (1)
  • Harlem Renaissance (5)
  • Heroes (2)
  • Humor (11)
  • Ideas in Things (11)
  • Imagery (41)
  • Imagination (1)
  • Imaginative Reconstruction (4)
  • Individuality (4)
  • Inference (1)
  • Introduction to Poetry (11)
  • John Keats (2)
  • John Updike (1)
  • Language (6)
  • Life (11)
  • List Poem (6)
  • Love (15)
  • Love That Dog (8)
  • Madness (1)
  • Margaret Atwood (2)
  • Mary Oliver (6)
  • Mask (8)
  • Memoir (9)
  • Metaphor (1)
  • Model Poem (21)
  • Modern (2)
  • Mothers (9)
  • Music (1)
  • Mystery (1)
  • Naomi Shihab Nye (2)
  • Narrative (2)
  • Native American (6)
  • Nature Responsibility (13)
  • Night (1)
  • Nikki Giovanni (1)
  • Ode (3)
  • Onomatopoeia (1)
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar (2)
  • Peace (3)
  • People (6)
  • Personification (8)
  • Perspective (3)
  • Poem in my Pocket Day (4)
  • Power (2)
  • Questions (2)
  • Reading (5)
  • Regret (6)
  • Responsibility (1)
  • Robert Frost (6)
  • Romanticism (2)
  • Satire (3)
  • School (4)
  • Seamus Heaney (4)
  • Seasonal (11)
  • Self (3)
  • Senses (3)
  • Shel Silverstein (2)
  • Sherman Alexie (4)
  • Sidekicks (1)
  • Simile (5)
  • Sonnet (6)
  • Sound (1)
  • Suffrage (2)
  • Symbol (4)
  • Teacher (2)
  • Technology (1)
  • The Crucible (4)
  • The Great Gatsby (1)
  • The Things They Carried (3)
  • Transcendentalism (2)
  • Trials (1)
  • Trust (1)
  • Voice (1)
  • W. H. Auden (1)
  • Walt Whitman (2)
  • War (6)
  • What Poetry Can Do (14)
  • William Blake (1)
  • William Butler Yeats (2)
  • William Carlos Williams (3)
  • William Wordsworth (1)
  • Women (7)
  • Words (6)
  • Writing (12)
  • Your Life (17)
  • Youth (23)

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      • I Go Back to May 1943
      • Breakings
      • I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines
      • Interpreting the Foreign Queen
      • Sonnet
      • Yesterday
      • My Papa's Waltz
      • Those Winter Sundays
      • Eagle Plain
      • End of April
      • Break
      • Void Life
      • A Kite For Michael and Christopher
      • The Lay of the Last Minstrel
      • The Unicorn
      • Sestina of Youth and Age
      • The Second Coming
      • Keeping Things Whole
      • To His Coy Mistress
      • “The Prophet” On Children
      • Salt of the Earth
      • Jabberwocky
      • In Praise of Limestone
      • George Gray
      • Chicago
      • At the Grand CafĂ©
      • The Boy Died in My Alley
      • A Blessing from my Sixteen Years' Son
      • The Voice
      • Schema
      • The City in the Sea
      • Fog
      • Kind Dove Sky
      • I Hear America Singing
      • The Tale of Custard the Dragon
      • On Turning Ten
      • Valentine
      • War Photographer
      • In Mrs Tilscher's Class
      • Poem 449
      • Poem 435
      • Because I Could Not Stop for Death
      • My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys
      • Dear John Wayne
      • Father Coming Home
      • A Circle Begins
      • Ex-Basketball Player
      • And behind all this darkness
      • The Summer Day
      • A Blessing
      • Silver Star
      • Death Of A Naturalist
      • Traveling Through The Dark
      • Blackberry Picking
      • Who Understands Me But Me
      • What Were They Like?
      • Tonight I Can Write
      • To a Daughter Leaving Home
      • The Exchange
      • The Hangman
      • The Beep Beep Poem
      • Summer Holiday
      • Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
      • Snowy Egret
      • Slow Children at Play
      • Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
      • Selecting a Reader
      • Radio
      • Of Politics & Art
      • Numbers
      • Alone
      • At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School
      • The Snowball Poem
      • Fire and Ice
      • My Father's Coat
      • Mirror
      • Loud Music
      • Lines
      • Lift Your Right Arm
      • Life's Tragedy
      • Sidekicks
      • The Grammar Lesson
      • Doing Without
      • The Poet
      • It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers
      • Introduction to Poetry
      • Hanging Fire
      • Halloween
      • Fifteen
      • Eating Poetry
      • Dulce Et Decorum Est
      • On Reading Harry Potter
      • The Lanyard
      • Don't Be Afraid
      • Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starti...
      • Digging
      • Poem 903
      • Kat’s Rewrite of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 141
      • Haiku
      • Tree Frogs