Elements of Poetry Study Guide, Part 1:

• Analysis of Poems with Similes
• Analysis of Poems with Metaphors
• Analysis of Poems with Personification.

Poems include

1. "What Happens to a Dream Deferred" and "Dreams" by Langston Hughes
2. "Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns
3. "Simile" by N. Scott Momaday
4. "The Base Stealer" by Robert Francis
5. "Sonnet CXXX" by William Shakespeare
6. "I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou
7. "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
8. "Alley Rats" by Carl Sandburg
9. "The Cat and the Fiddle" by Mother Goose
10. "Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room" by William Blake
11. "She sweeps with many-colored brooms" by Emily Dickinson
12. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth.