The five lessons in the Poetic Studies series focus on the literary and poetic devices in the poems of With Rough Gods.
Lesson 1: Theme encourages students to look at With Rough Gods not merely as a collection of poems but as a singular work in itself.
Lesson 2: Repeat Offenders explores the evolving portrayal of characters in With Rough Gods.
Lesson 3: Speakers is divided into three sections:
Lesson 3 Part A: Identical Speakers requires students to analyze Palmer's representation of pairs of mythological characters who are distinct as a pair but not necessarily distinct from each other.
Lesson 3 Part B: Ambiguous Speakers presents students with poems from With Rough Gods where the speakers are not easily identified and asks students to determine the effect such ambiguity has on the reader.
Lesson 3 Part C: Ambiguous Subjects discusses how a few of the poems in With Rough Gods are not necessarily about what their titles would imply.
Lesson 4: Diction in "Aphrodite & Hephaestus" is a case study in how diction is specifically used in one poem from With Rough Gods. Its basic structure can be applied to any of the book's poems.
Lesson 5: Sonnet Structure explores With Rough Gods' unique variation on sonnet structure and how these sonnets fit within the overall history of sonnets.
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