Follow these instructions: Essential Elements:  meaning: What do you see as the

Follow these instructions:
Essential Elements:
 meaning: What do you see as the primary purpose of the poem?
 literary devices: Although there is some crossover in terminology, the list is different from
the short story list. The terms for poetry are diction (word choice), syntax (word order),
imagery, metaphor, personification, figurative language, symbol, allegory, irony, and form
(includes open or closed form, rhythm, meter, and rhyme).
 specific references to the text: These support your statement of the theme. Use specific
quotes and cite details that the author includes, explaining how they demonstrate the term
and relate to the theme.
Organization/Content:
 Your introduction should identify the author and the story and state the meaning of the poem
as you see it. Also mention the literary devices you intend to discuss. Keep it simple.
 Use the literary devices you choose to organize your paper. You don’t have to limit yourself
to a paragraph for each one, but keep your discussion of each element separate and put them
in a logical order. As you explore each device, giving specific examples from the text,
demonstrate and explain how this device serves the meaning of the poem.
Technical Aspects:
 Include a Works Cited page, citing the poem. I don’t expect you to use secondary sources,
but if you do get outside help, be sure to cite that too. Getting information from a website or
other source is perfectly fine; using those ideas without acknowledging them is not. The
correct format for this is on p. 2092 of your book under “a work in a collection by different
writers.” Use the Robert Frost example, but be sure to replace the pertinent information,
including the page number.
 Use parenthetical citations to identify quotations in the body of the paper, but use the poem’s
line numbers instead of page numbers [(line 6) or (l. 6); for more than one line number use
(lines 6–8) or (ll. 6–8)]. For secondary sources, use conventional citations.
 When citing more than one line of poetry, put a forward slash (/) where the line break occurs.
Be sure to maintain the punctuation, spacing, and capitalization exactly as they appear in the
poem:
The last three lines of the poem suggest hesitation and uncertainty, not confidence: “Two roads
diverged in a wood, and I—/I took the one less travelled by,/And that has made all the
difference” (ll. 18–20).
Choose one of these poets:
by Robert Frost:
• “The Road Not Taken”
• “Design”
• “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
• “Neither Out Far nor In Deep”
• “Fire and Ice”
• “Mending Wall”
• “After Apple Picking”
• “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”•
“Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker
• “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
• “Dog’s Death” by John Updike
The Pleasure of Words
• “Oh, Oh” by William Hathaway
• A Sample Close Reading
• “Catch” by Robert Francis
• “Mountain Graveyard” by Robert Morgan
• “l(a” by e. e. Cummings
• “My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth
• “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• “A Bird came down the Walk” by Emily Dickinson
• “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• From Macbeth (Act V, Scene v) by William Shakespeare
• Simile and Metaphor
• “you fit into me” by Margaret Atwood
• “Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the lawn” by Emily Dickinson
• “The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet
Poetry in Fixed Forms:
• “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now” by A. E. Housman
• “The World is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth
• “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” by William Shakespeare
• “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare
• “Do not go gentle into that goodnight” by Dylan Thomas
• “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
MLA, around 800 – 1000 words please, low similarity rate and proper citation. The file attached can help with literary devices and technical terms, use it. Thank you!