Category: Poetry

PREVIEW: Unit 2 Poetry Analysis Thesis and Outline Assignment Instructions
Purpose
This assignment, due in Module 6, will enable you to identify a poet’s use of poetic devices and create an original thesis that analyzes their function within the text and a coordinating outline for a proposed composition.
Skills
This assignment requires careful explication of a poem and discussion of literary analysis on a surface level. You will practice:
Critical reading and thinking skills
Annotation and explication of a text
Identification and application of poetic devices and connection to a theme
Composition of literary analysis
Learning Objectives: LO1, LO3, LO4, LO5, LO10, LO13
Task
In this assignment, you will build on your previous skills and experiences explicating and annotating a poem with an end goal of an effective outline including an introduction, thesis, and the first two components of a body paragraph with topic sentences and evidence. Your outline will identify specific literary devices and their connection to an overall theme for the poem. This assignment is a continuation of the process you completed in this unit’s previous assignments and allows you to practice several aspects of the typical structure of a literary analysis essay.
Part 1
Choose one of the poems your instructor assigned for this unit. You can certainly choose a poem you have already posted about in one of the Unit 2 forums, but you don’t have to. Be sure to consider what you learned and your feedback from your Poetry Response Video Assignment and Discussion Board 2.1 when working on this assignment. NOTE: Do not use any of the texts used in sample assignments or instructional videos in this course. If in doubt, check your selection with your professor before beginning this assignment.
Part 2
You will closely read (and reread) your chosen poem, considering its mode, patterns of figurative language, and other literary elements while annotating and explicating the text. This portion of the assignment serves as your notes or foundation to the written composition, so be mindful to genuinely engage with the text and investigate its contents.
Part 3
Next, you will use your annotations and notes to discern a connection between the devices identified and an overall theme of the poem. Refer back to the preliminary work with this type of skill with Discussion 2.1 and the Sample Literary Analysis to help guide your process. It is during this step that you will create your working thesis statement and related supporting details.
Part 4
Use this section as the framework for creating an analytical outline. Your finished outline should include the following elements:
First, an introductory paragraph that offers key background information on the poem and what you are focusing on about it. Consider using the format suggested in your Literary Criticism Assignment in Unit 1. As with any introduction, your thesis should be the final sentence. Compose a well-crafted thesis statement: One sentence that identifies the connection of literary device(s) to a theme within the text. Remember, your thesis should be specific and argumentative.
Next, compose topic sentences (Main Ideas) to begin your body paragraphs. These should focus on specific ideas and elements from the poem that provide evidence and support for your overall interpretation of the poem (thesis). Keep in mind that your topic sentences are also specific and argumentative; they are essentially the thesis for that body paragraph. (Be sure to have NO LESS THAN 3 topic sentences total.)
For each topic sentence, you will provide AT LEAST one textual example (Evidence) to support your claim. Be sure to provide the MLA citation for each example, as you must use these in an essay. You want to keep the number of examples per paragraph no more than two.
To follow each textual example, you will need to provide. Analysis or explanation of how and why the examples you selected support NOT ONLY the topic sentence argument BUT ALSO the thesis for essay overall. The analysis portion of the paragraph is the longest, most in-depth portion of the body paragraph. For the outline, you will not need to fully develop your analysis; you will simply need to provide a sentence (or two) that shows the connection between your Main idea and Evidence.
The final step of the body paragraph is the Link or transition; this sentence is the signal that informs your reader that this paragraph is finished and builds a segue to the next topic. You can use transitional words and phrases (in addition to, in contrast, although, etc.). Keep in mind that your final body paragraph will not transition to a new topic paragraph but to the conclusion; it will read a little differently than the others.
To close your outline, you will want to provide a concluding paragraph. This paragraph should echo your earlier thesis statement but not simply restate it. Your conclusion should identify the larger significance of your essay: Why is your argument or information important for others to read and consider. What should your reader do after reading your argument? So what?
**Sources for textual support should come from the poem***

“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke Please watch this video about pattern, sound, and meter in poetry. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URuMb15CWJs&t=34s ) Read this poem carefully, and consider both the story the poet is telling and the rhyme and meter he uses to tell it. Notice how it is written in Iambic tri-meter, which is the pace of a waltz. It has a bouncy, and childlike feeling to it. Notice how this affects your interpretation of the poem. ( https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43330/my-papas-waltz ) * After reading My Papa’s Waltz BY THEODORE ROETHKE and watched the video please answer these questions: – In your view, who is the speaker of this poem and who are they talking to? How does the speaker feel about this person and what is the evidence for these feelings? AND, how does the poem make you feel, and why? *** In your discussions, please be and trust yourself. Don’t go to outside sources. Write informally and honestly.Your answer must be written in your own voice and words. All plagiarism must be avoided. *** I would like the paper to be looking like a question & answer format rather than looking like an essay. *** *** Only use the sources that I gave you *** express what you are going to write in a way that sounds like it’s coming from you and sounds more like you’re giving your personal opinion using your own words******

After a brief paragraph of introduction, your response paper should include two components, each comprising a section of your paper: first, you should provide a response to the poet’s work, using brief quotations to illustrate what you find most significant or striking; second, you should discuss in what ways the event—both the reading and the Q&A—altered your understanding or deepened your response with the issues central to the poet’s work. What was the effect of real-time engagement withthe writer? I encourage you to use personal experience and personal voice in these papers. write me more a personal experience and response to the book Rituals for Climate Change A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice by Naomi Oritz. and the interview event hat attached.

PLEASE DONT PLAGIARIZE. USE YOUR OWN WORDS:
Below are the Instructions for “The Prophet” book assignment, your paper should be for a minimum of 3 pages.
You paper may exceed 3 pages but it can’t be less and should be in a double space format.
A version of the Prophet book is available on line:
Copy and paste the Link below in a separate window to read the Collection of the 26 Poetic subjects:
https://mypoeticside.com/poets/khalil-gibran-poems
You are required to Read All the Poems and Write:
A- 1 page for:
1- The author biography: “Gibran Khalil Gibran” that you need to research it on your Own and to include the citation of All your sources at the end of your paper.
2- The impact of his life on his writings. B – Half a page for:
Describing the message/s the author wanted to pass to the readers in the book.
C – Half a page for each Theme you write about, a total of one full page, double space.
Choose 2 themes (2 out of the multiple themes/ poems) that you liked and you were impressed by it in the book and discuss them in details.
D- Half a page for:
Expressing your Inspiration from the book
Your paper should be for a minimum of 3 pages and consist of 4 separate Sections, each section should have a title as per the posted Instructions.
You can write more than 3 pages but you can’t write less.
– Citation is required for all your sources: MLA style ***Please write your paper in a double space format, the paper should be attached / uploaded and Not Typed in.
Section 1
The author biography and
———————————————–
The impact of his life in his writings ——————————————— 1 page for both sections, half a page for each section. Section 2
The message/s the author wanted to pass to the readers
———————————————————————- half a page
Section 3
Theme 1
——————- half a page
Theme 2
——————- half a page
Section 4
My Inspiration from the Book
———————————— half a page

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57322/for-the-fallen
https://powerpoetry.org/poems/peace-shakespearean-sonnet
i decide to pick two poem about war and peace when you look at news all you see is war and like everyone in world I want peace from whats happen on Russia to Israel I feel this poems has great point I look at new I see people leaving home. I look at news I see they soon we will have Russia is Ukraine every one one just want peace. You can put what i said in paper.
After reading the link posted above you should read the information on kinds of poetry You should write a 200 word response on any aspect of Kinds of poetry. Say what you like about what you have chosen and why. Relate what you are writing to what is going on in our society. You can also explain how the aspect you have chosen affects you or someone you know.

I have attached 2 files. One is my draft and the other is a small student sample that my professor has given us. In my draft for my historical introduction, my professor asked for me to make sure that this is the only paragraph that is past tense, the rest must be present tense.
Throughout my essay she wants correct documentation, I’m assuming similar to her sample. For the literary elements like personification in my sentences, my professor wants explanations to their meanings and how it is being used and also which line it can be found in. You can rewrite the whole paper for all I care, I just need for this paper to be pretty much formatted correctly to my professor’s standards. Please do not forget to add the citations into the sentences and if you find any other websites or articles to add them in the work cited section. Please make it as similar to her sample if possible at least just for the historical intro.

Write me three detailed questions toward the book Hybrida by Tina Chang, specifically about race, gender and disability, On that note: please be aware that Tina Chang’s Hybrida addresses anti-Black violence, specifically the police killing of Michael Brown and the 2015 mass shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. It also references events in recent years that include child kidnapping and harm, as well as bullying. The depictions are not graphic. But parts of Hybrida engage with events in the last decade that are deeply disturbing and violent. Check the notes at the end of the book for a sense of which poems address these events. So pay attention to details of the poems and make the question, also maybe quote the poem sentence in the question and briefly answer

Please answer both following parts:
Part One:
After reading the sample explication of Phillip Larkin’s poem “A Study of Reading Habits,” answer the following questions:
What kind of poem did the author of the essay expect after reading the title of the poem? What kind of poem did he get? (The answer can be found in the first paragraph, where the essay’s author sets up the major discrepancy of the poem. The rest of the explication will illustrate how the author accomplishes this.)
How did the author of the essay organize the paragraphs of their explication? Give a brief explanation.
Part Two:
Write a 2 paper in which you explicate the poem “Harlem” according to the guidelines below.
Writing an explication essay really isn’t that difficult once you have the main objectives in mind.
As with any essay, you have to sit down to write with a plan in mind. For an explication, your main objective is to come up with a few lines describing what the poem is about, and then use the rest of the essay to prove how the author uses literary elements to make their point.
In the explication example on page 341 of our text, in the first paragraph the author sets up what the poem is about. They talk about the “ironic discrepancy” between the formal language of the title and the “slangy, even vulgar” language of the poem itself. The paper’s author even goes on to say the subject is not the man’s reading habits as is implied by the title, but rather “the revelation of the character” they provide. Now he must use the rest of his paper to prove his statements true. The same is true for you. Decide what the main idea of Harlem is, and state it in your first paragraph.
In the second paragraph the author speaks about the structure of the poem; how the poem is organized and presented. You may do this for the poem “Harlem” as well. I don’t expect you to know about rhyme and meter yet, but you may try to identify the physical structure of the poem. The spaces between lines are there for a reason. What do you think those reasons might be?
If you choose to skip over structure, you can go right into your first literary element. You might want to talk about the metaphors in the poems, or the similes. Show how each one lends itself to the overall meaning of the poem. Use the ideas you and your classmates generated last week in the discussion to help you with this!
Next, you might decide to talk about the diction of the poem. What words does Langston Hughes use to help further the cause of his poem?
For the final paragraph, you might try to look up some information on the life of Langston Hughes and see if you can draw any parallels to the poem. This is the ONLY place you may use outside research if you choose. (Make sure to use a Works Cited page if you use outside research.) If you choose not to use outside research simply write a paragraph in which you sum up some of points you made and make sure you reiterate the main purpose of the poem.
Therefore you should make sure:
Your paper has a title – which could simply be the title of the poem
Your first paragraph paraphrases the main idea(s) of the poem and what it is about
Your body paragraphs each deal with a particular literary element and how that element helps the poet get his point across
The “concluding” paragraph can deal with the poet’s relationship to the speaker in the poem (Which requires a bit of outside research) or simply sum up what the author’s main point was and how effective you think the author was in making his poin

So what is a poetry paper, and how is it different from summary papers or compare-and-contrast essays?

This poem should be written in the spirit of John Keats’ notion of Negative Capability, a term he coined in a letter he wrote to his brothers George and Tom in 1817. Inspired by Shakespeare’s work, he describes it as “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
This poem should situate within or embody the definition of an emotion you’ve chosen from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
The emotion I chose: “Keir”: Which is an ill-fated attempt to reenact a beloved memory years later, returning to a place that once felt like home, only to find it now feels uncannily off, like walking through a wax museum of your own childhood.
The method to approaching this assignment:
“Directions for Use”, attached are instructions on how to do that.
Let me know if you have any questions!