The student may enjoy the independent nature of the assignment, and the fact that it is like creating an artistic project, rather than regurgitating literary materials. Students can then present their artwork to class. Auditory learners:

Auditory learners may have great fun with this poetic portfolio and presentation assignment. They often enjoy reading poetry out loud, and enjoying the sounds of various poems. Encouraging them to find other poems that illustrate poetic concepts and ideas may be the beginning of a lifelong love of higher-level poetry. Auditory learners may enjoy presenting their portfolios to the class, and reading the selections or acting them out loud. This can be a teaching device for the other students, as quite often hearing and speaking poetry is a better way of understanding how poetic devices function. Students with a musical inclination may enjoy setting the poems to music, or using song as well as poetry excerpts to illustrate how popular songs contain poetic...

Even though they may find independent research difficult regarding some more abstract poetic concepts, presenting their selections to the class as a demonstration, either read aloud, performed, or 'acted out' can help them see how poetry is not something theoretical, but can express profound emotional truths.
Works Cited

Learning styles. (2009). LDPride.net. Retrieved January 31, 2009 at http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm#Learning%20Styles%20Explained

Poetry anthology scoring sheet (2009). University of Tucson. Retrieved January 31, 2009 at www.myeport.com/published/t/uc/tucson5/collection/5/9/upload.doc

Poetry portfolio assignment