In addition to Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica," this lesson plan also makes use of Horace's "Ars poetica" as translated by C. Smart and by E. H. Blakeney (the translation is available at the Poetry Foundation website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69381/ars-poetica).
The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis. The questions provided for the final paper are most suitable for student essays. For the sake of improving students' written expression, teachers should encourage students to write on topics that have been discussed in class, this time in the more...
