Poetry comes from the creative place inside of an author; sometimes in order to understand their work the audience needs to understand who that author is. You will be choosing an poet from the list below (or feel free to get an additional author approved) in order to understand his or her life and comment on how it is reflected in their work. 

Analyzing poetry in terms of its author's life is called

BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM:

It is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their works of literature. Biographical criticism is often associated with Historical-Biographical criticism, a method that sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a reflection of its author's life and times.

You will be creating a page examining an author's life, his or her work, and how the two are connected. Click on the link below to view an example of what the page should look like. 

Ashbrook's Poet Page

Honors English 10

Anstreicher, Brandi

Antonitis, Meghan

Blomquist, Krista

Brown, Abigail

Bruckart, Briana

Cather, Chloe

Crowder, Molly

Frederick, Abigail

Gibson, Victoria

Hendrickson, Ben

Kirksey, Jaleaha

Leonard, Derek

Lynch, Sean

Marshall, Hayden

McClune, Jason

McMahan, Devyn

Moran, Jessica

Pugh, Jamika

Ray, Griffin

Ryan, Tabor

Samuel, Monique

Sargent, Alexis

Trimble, Devinn

Warfield, Logan

English 10

Cook, Dwight

Cooper, Ethan

Cyphers, Jacob

Davis, Stephen

Dill, Zach

Fromosky, Cory

Lafontaine, Nicole

Magaw, Casey

Martin, Daniel

Maxwell, Morgan

Penwell, Jordan

Perez, Alberto

Pierce, Chelsea

Racine, James

Raftery, Tim

Rea, John

Reddig, Mason

Scalone, Jacob

Scheffey, Jonathan

Tabannor, Adalia

Vanover, Jeffrey

Whitt, Allison

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