Essay Description For the second essay, you will be writing about poetry. You wi

Essay Description
For the second essay, you will be writing about poetry. You will analyze it and use some of the readings these past weeks to think through and then analyze a piece of fictiton. Below, I have included 11 prompts. You may either choose 1 and write your entire essay in response to that. Or, you may choose two and write smaller responses to them. Each prompt requires you to address a specific poem. You may 1) choose a poem you are already familar with, 2) choose a poem we have read in class, or 3) pick from this site of poems. You can search by poet, topic, period, or region.
Essay Prompts
1. How does the language of the poem reflect the speaker’s perceptions and how does that language determine the reader’s perception?
2. How does the poet reveal character? (i.e., diction, sound devices, imagery, allusion)
3. Discuss the similarities and differences between two poems. Consider style and theme.
4. Contrast the speakers’ views towards a subject in two poems. Refer to form, tone, and imagery.
5. Discuss how poetic elements, such as language, structure, imagery and point of view convey meaning in a poem.
6. Given two poems, discuss what elements make one better than the other.
7. Relate the imagery, form, or theme of a particular section of a poem to another part of that same poem. Discuss changing attitude or perception of speaker or reader.
8. Analyze a poem’s extended metaphor and how it reveals the poet’s or speaker’s attitude.
9. Discuss the way of life revealed in a poem. Refer to such poetic elements as tone, imagery, symbol, and verse form.
10. Discuss the poet’s changing reaction to the subject developed in the poem.
11. Discuss how the form of the poem affects its meaning.
Requirements
Written in Word and uploaded on Bb
1000-1200 Words
2 Outside sources
Citations and Works Cited in MLA format