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Research the poem and the poet on important historical or cultural information that might enrich your understanding of the work. Connect the historical or cultural information to the development of the story.

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ASSIGNMENT

Let’s APPLY my THE LEAST YOU SHOULD KNOW” APPROACH FOR POETRY Poems to Choose From ff-> Choose ANY POEM from the list above and follow these steps:

  1. Read the poem three times, at least one time aloud.
  2. Read the poem a fourth time to clarify the speaker/persona, listener, and circumstance. Remember that the speaker may not be the autobiographical poet, but a fictional creation. Compare, for example, when the poem was written with the age of the poet at the time he or she wrote it. Any discrepancy is a sign of a fictional persona. You may also need to do some research to determine the circumstance of the poem. Consider, for example, where and when the poem was written, and the historical circumstances that may have motivated the poet.
  3. Read the poem a fifth time, now paying particular attention to the plot, narrative, conflict, and so forth. Remember that in some poems where a traditional plot is missing, you will still find a rhetorical form such as an apology, a plea, a persuasive argument, and so forth.
  4. Read the poem a sixth time, now for its images, symbols, metaphors, and controlling ideas.
  5. Read the poem a final time, aloud, to appreciate the poet’s use of sound.
  6. Finally, spend some time online and research both the poem and its author to see if this will yield some important additional information. Be sure to list the sources of any additional information you uncover in case your readers are interested in pursuing your leads. (You may also find that you want to pursue these leads in future assignments!)

The key to reading poetry is to slow down, not get frustrated, and give yourself plenty of time to understand each word and line in the poem as well as the many nuances that language can convey. Don’t fabricate a meaning that does not exist, just to be able to say something. Instead, allow the evidence of the poem to lead you to your understanding.

Return to the poem if you are unsure and keep reading!

  1. Write on the important images, metaphors or symbols in the work. How does this connotation enrich your understanding of the work as a whole?
  2. Research the poem and the poet on important historical or cultural information that might enrich your understanding of the work. Connect the historical or cultural information to the development of the story.
  3. Write about the themes. What world or life view is the author expressing? Negative? Positive? How do you know? What is his/her message?
  4. Use three terms from the list in the module and apply them to your chosen poem. In other words use a line from the poem and say this is an example of

 

Demonstrate a thorough understanding of context, audience, and purpose of a proposal essay. Use appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of a proposal essay. Incorporate at least two citations in each paragraph from at least two library database sources.

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Argument essay

Using the attached poem, identify a theme from which you can write a paper. You will not be writing nor analyzing the poem. The poem is only to be used to generate a topic.

Try to demonstrate all of the following elements:
Explanation of issues: Issue/problem to be considered critically is stated clearly and described comprehensively, delivering all relevant information necessary for full understanding.
Evidence: Information is taken from source(s) with enough interpretation/evaluation to develop a comprehensive analysis or synthesis. Viewpoints of experts are questioned thoroughly.
Position: Specific position is imaginative, taking into account the complexities of an issue. (This means that you have written a sophisticated thesis.) Limits of position are acknowledged. Others’ points of view are synthesized within position (Basically, these two things are the discussion of the opposing view and rebuttal.)
Conclusions and related outcomes: (Other terms might be “implications and consequences”) Conclusions and related outcomes are logical and reflect student’s informed evaluation and ability to place evidence and perspectives discussed in priority order.
Context of and Purpose for Writing: Demonstrate a thorough understanding of context, audience, and purpose of a proposal essay.
Content Development: Use appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of a proposal essay.
Sources and Evidence: Incorporate at least two citations in each paragraph from at least two library database sources.
Control of Syntax and Mechanics: Use graceful language that skillfully communicates meaning to readers with clarity and fluency, making almost no errors.

Why are you interested in exploring this poem? What literary elements do you see the author using in the poem? What approach might you take in analyzing this poem? Example approaches include a discussion of the poem’s use of imagery, symbolism, theme, or characterization. What questions do you have for the instructor about the upcoming essay assignment?

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Poem

Choose a poem from the assigned readings that you are interested in exploring in more depth for the writing project in Week 2. The poem can be from Week 1 or Week 2.
Title your paragraph with the title of the poem.
In a well-developed paragraph, explain:
Why are you interested in exploring this poem?
What literary elements (such as imagery, symbolism, metaphor, simile, etc.) do you see the author using in the poem?
What approach might you take in analyzing this poem? Example approaches include a discussion of the poem’s use of imagery, symbolism, theme, or characterization.
What questions do you have for the instructor about the upcoming essay assignment?

The poem should be your only source for this post. Do not use outside sources.
Alacor, “‘Mexican’ Is Not a Noun”
Alvarez, “Dusting”
Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Browning, “How Do I Love Thee”
Burns, “Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose”
Cummings, “Buffalo Bill”
Cummings, “Next to of Course God America I”
Cummings, “Since Feeling is First”
Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”
Epada, “My Father as a Guitar”
Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”
Heaney, “Digging”
Heaney, “Mid-Term Break”
Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
Hopkins, “Spring and Fall”
Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
Komunyakaa, “Facing It”
MacLeish, “Ars Poetica”
Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
McKay, “The White City”
Meredith, “Dreams of Suicide”
Pastan, “Ethics”
Plath, “Daddy”
Pound, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
Randall, “Ballad of Birmingham”
Rich, “Living in Sin”
Robinson, “Miniver Cheevy”
Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”
Shakespeare, “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”
Shakespeare, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun”
Shakespeare, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning”
Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar”
Stevens, “The Snow Man”
Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Yeats, “When You Are Old”

Thoroughly analyze and interpret the poem and explain in detail what in the poem applies to the character you chosen and what in the poem would illuminating for that character to understand.

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Poem

The poem from William Shakespeare think about what applies to the life or perspective of one character from No Country for old men . In the essay thoroughly analyze and interpret the poem and explain in detail what in the poem applies to the character you chosen and what in the poem would illuminating for that character to understand. This should be a formal,analytical essay of four pages.

Write a three to four page essay analyzing it through a close reading that takes the poem completely apart. Each line of the poem should be discussed in depth to support your thesis. Examine the words and the word origins, the images, the diction and tone that build up in the poem, the structure of the poem through its rhythm, rhyme, and meter.

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Robert Frost “Out, Out-“

Write an essay that defends a thesis developed through a close critical reading/analysis of poem.

This essay shall rely on textual support from the primary text.

Do not confuse “critical analysis” with “summary” nor should you speak of “relating” to the poem; the goal is to develop, sustain, and advance a thesis based on a critique of the primary text.

Write a three to four page essay analyzing it through a close reading that takes the poem completely apart. Each line of the poem should be discussed in depth to support your thesis. Examine the words and the word origins, the images, the diction and tone that build up in the poem, the structure of the poem through its rhythm, rhyme, and meter.

Choose a poemand, for the first section, write a few sentences saying what the poem says. If the poet wasn’t writing with rhymes or poetic language but instead was just speaking plainly, what would the words be?

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Check the details

INSTRUCTION:

For the response, choose a poem (or section of a poem) and, for the first section, write a few sentences saying what the poem says. (In other words, if the poet wasn’t writing with rhymes or poetic language but instead was just speaking plainly, what would the words be? This portion is like “translating” the poem into plain and/or spoken language.)

Then the second section should be your perspective on how the poet’s language impacts the meaning and feeling of the poem. Try to use some of the terms we learn in class, like alliteration, or slant rhyme, or kinds of meter (like iambic, for example). Obviously, the more we talk about things in class, the more terms you’ll know. Just do your best for now!

 

Write a page on the poem you will analyze for the paper. Explain why you chose this poem. What themes do you plan on writing about? What is difficult about this paper? What do you need help with?

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Reader’s Response

Write a page on the poem you will analyze for the paper. Explain why you chose this poem. What themes do you plan on writing about? What is difficult about this paper? What do you need help with?

Write a poem in your own words containing 3 or more lines and 50 or more words.

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Pristine

Write a poem in your own words containing 3 or more lines and 50 or more words.

What is the meaning of the word “Admonition” and why is it the title of Plath’s poem about a bird? What is the difference between the “Bluebird” by Bukowski and Wanda Coleman’s “Bluesbird”? What does image of a bird represent? Why is it so prevalent in poetry and prose?

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Poem

While reading, circle three significant images you will write about. Your post should discuss one of these images and state what it means.

While reading notice the role of poetic narrator and their voice. Who is the poetic narrator and what is their point of view (1sr, 2nd or 3rd person)? What are the issues of voice?

The forum post might comment upon why the narrator in Plath’s poem “Daddy” says “every woman adores a fascist”–do you agree? What kind of a gender statement is this?

Also. what is the meaning of the word “Admonition” and why is it the title of Plath’s poem about a bird?

What is the difference between the “Bluebird” by Bukowski and Wanda Coleman’s “Bluesbird”?

What does image of a bird represent?

Why is it so prevalent in poetry and prose?

Where does the image of “bird” come up in “Sonny’s Blues” and why?

Write a page and a half Literary Exploration following this structure: Introduce what is significant/interesting about your chosen focus/prompt concept:

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Literary exploration

II Poetry Assignment Review: 111 1.

Choose a poem you like from the six (10 listed in the assignment (7 if you choose the video) is Introduction to PoetryI.

■ Five Ways to Kill a Man” (Poem and/or Vide.

_40 ■ Dickenson – Part Three Love

■ “Still I Rise”

■ Ballad of Birmingham

■ Funeral Blues M You can choose any poem provide in the NEWS (Nov. 1-4). 2. Then, connect your poem to the chosen writing focus (prompt) that you feel works best for your poem

■ Thesis ideas for your poem choice and related writing question 3. Write a page and a half Literary Exploration following this structure: Introduce what is significant/interesting about your chosen focus/prompt concept:

▪ Life experiences shape an individual’s attitude.
• Learnin7 from the experiences of others can benefit us.

• An individual’s response to Adversity reveals their character. A Individual actions affect the lives of others.