I search paper...Teaching Poetry

For my I search paper I chose to write about the teaching of poetry in high schools. I have always found poetry one of the most interesting and meaningful forms of literature and I have a very strong passion for exciting young people about poetry too. There are many people who view poetry as a dying art. Many teachers avoid teaching it all together because, in many cases, teachers do not feel prepared to teach it and understand it themselves! I am very interesting in finding new ways to introduce poems to my future classroom. I want to go into teaching completely prepared to handle the dissection of poetry, but I also want to make sure that the focus in my class is not on picking poems apart and over analyzing them, but instead just purely enjoying them. I read a book titled Poetry 180 in one of my other college courses and it really peaked my interest in this topic and showed me how important it is to expose students to poetry and make it enjoyable to them. I am interested in learning some interesting techniques of teaching poetry, and ways that have been proven to work with high school students. I also want to try to get closer to defining poetry and really pinpointing what it is and how to explain that to students. I am excited to see what research I come across on this topic and one day put that knowledge to use in my own classroom.