Every classroom is different, and poetry can be particularly challenging to teach, but the potent imagery, vivid voice, and experimental structure of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Eliot's other poems may be compelling to many students. These lessons and activities provide many different approaches to these themes; select those that best suit the strengths and interests of your own class.
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 their written...