In his 1936 essay «The Irrational Element in Poetry,» Stevens remarks that the poet uses his intuition both in the selection of the subject of a poem and in his selection of the right words or sounds. (firstthings.com)
Replace five words in the poem with five different words that will either destroy the quality or completely change the subject of the poem. (edutopia.org)
Students use the information in the autobiographical and biographical poems as source material as they write essays comparing and / or contrasting themselves with the famous people who are the subjects of their poems. (educationworld.com)