April IS Poetry Month

I cannot think of a better way to begin the month of April than poetry.  Hopefully you have been thinking about a poet or a few poets from the classroom text or maybe others you have been introduced to in other classes.  Your final project for AP Lit. will be the completion of a research project reflecting the background information on a poet and a poem that you will analyze.  In about two weeks we will begin presentations and you will have built some confidence and mastery of poetry going into the AP exam. Similar to the novel project, I want you to have fun with the assignment, but please choose a poem with literary merit.  I will have final say on what is or isn't appopriate for this assignment. Please post your ideas below.

Here are some suggestions to get you started if you are still searching:
William Wordsworth
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Blake
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Thomas Hardy
A.E. Housman
William Butler Yeats
Rita Dove
Carl Sandburg
Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
Gwendolyn Brooks
Sylvia Plath
Pablo Neruda
Anne Bradstreet
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nikki Giovanni
Billy Collins
Elizabeth Bishop
Ezra Pound