Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?

How to draft poetry Discover how you can draft your own poetry using examples from Wilfred Owen’s ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’.

One way to make sure students are attuned to this is to present them with blocked-out poems. Take this example from Marianne Moore’s poem “The Fish”: An excerpt of Marianne Moore’s poem “The Fish.” ...