For this essay, you will demonstrate critical thinking: comparison/contrasting etc. Your essay will require you to identify two poems from the list below and analyze how each work expresses a common theme. In your analysis, you will compare and/or contrast how each author approaches the theme through their use of literary devices

For this essay, you will demonstrate critical thinking: comparison/contrasting etc. Your essay will require you to identify two poems from the list below and analyze how each work expresses a common theme. In your analysis, you will compare and/or contrast how each author approaches the theme through their use of literary devices.

Requirements:

1. Your essay should be 5-8 pages in length, include a Works Cited list and be written in MLA format.
2. Your essay should compare/contrast a poem with any other poem listed below.
3. Your essay should link the two works being discussed thematically and discuss how each author approaches his/her theme through their use of literary devices
4. Review the poems for the following
5. Alliteration
6. Near(slant/imperfect) rhyme
7. Assonance
8. Consonance
9. Denotation
10. Connotation
11. Synesthesia
12. Synecdoche
13. Apostrophe
14. Meter
15. Foot
16. Onomatopoeia
17. Open/Free form poem
18. Some other items to consider when looking at the two pieces of work:
19. Voice
    1. Who is speaking?
    2. How would you characterize the speaker?
    3. To whom is he or she speaking?
    4. What is the speaker’s tone?
    5. Why is he or she speaking?
20. Word Choice, Word Order
    1. What type of diction is the poet employing?
    2. How does the poet’s word choice affect the meaning of the poem? the tone?
    3. Does the poet employ figures of speech? (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, understatement, metonymy, synecdoche)   Does the word order impact the reading of or the meaning of the poem?
21. Imagery
    1. Did you note any descriptive passages? For each image, name the sense that is being appealed to.
    2. What is the dominant impression being created?
    3. What is the relationship of the descriptive images to the speaker’s state of mind?
    4. How do images create sense of time of day? season of year? atmosphere? mood?
    5. Do the images progress? (day to night, hot to cold, soft to loud, color to color, etc)
22. Sound
    1. Does the poem contain an obvious meter or rhythm?
    2. What sounds are emphasized by the rhyme scheme?
    3. Are there sight rhymes, slant rhymes, alliteration, assonance, etc?
23. Structure
    1. Is the poem in a closed or open form?
    2. Is the poem presented in a traditional form?
    3. Is there a pattern of end rhymes? a syllabic line count? a set metrical pattern?
    4. How are the stanzas arranged? the lines?
24. Theme
    1. What seems to be the point of the poem?
    2. Wwhat ideas are being communicated by the speaker?
    3. How are the ideas being reinforced by the elements of the poem?

Other factors to consider

Is the poem a lyric or a narrative or other?

If it is a narrative, is there a setting? a conflict? a plot line? (elements of fiction)

Does the poet employ the use of symbol? allegory? allusion? myth?

 

 

Marianne Moore – Poetry 1921

Percy Bysshe Shelley – Ozymandias – 1818

John Keats – Ode to a nightingale – 1819

William SHAKESPEARE – That time of year thou mayst in me behold 1609

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE  – My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun – 1609

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE  – Shall I compare thee to a summers day? – 1609

SYLVIA PLATH – Metaphors – 1960

SYLVIA PLATH – Daddy – 1965

Sylvia Plath – Morning Song – 1962

Gwendolyn Brooks – We real cool – 1959

Gwendolyn Brooks – What shall I give my children? – 1949

E.E. Cummings – in Just – 1923

E.E. Cummings – anyone lived in a pretty how town – 1940

Margaret Atwood – The City Planners – 1966

MARGARET ATWOOD – you fit into me – 1971

Langston Hughes – Negro – 1926

Langston Hughes – Harlem – 1951

Robert Browning – My last duchess – 1842

Robert Browning – Porphyria’s Lover – 1836

William Carlos Williams – Red Wheelbarrow – 1923

William Carlos Williams – The great figure – 1938

Walt Whitman – When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer – 1865

Robert Frost – Fire and Ice – 1923

Robert Frost – “Out, Out- “– 1916

Rhina Espaillat –  Bilingual/Bilingue – 1998

Adrienne Rich – Living in Sin – 1955

FRANCISCO X. ALARCON – “Mexican” is not a noun – 2002

Jim Sagel – Baca Grande – 1982

Adrienne Su – The English Canon – 2000

Mark Halliday – The value of education – 2000

Paul Laurence Dunbar – We wear the mask – 1896

Edmund Spencer – One day I wrote her name upon the strand – 1595

A.E. Housman – To an athlete dying young – 1896

Emily Dickinson – I’m nobody!  Who are you? – 1891

Louise Gluck – Gretel in Darkness – 1971

Leslie Marmon Silko – Where mountain lion lay down with deer – 1973

Janice Mirikitani – Suicide Note – 1987

Thomas Hardy – The Man he killed – 1902

Amy Lowell – Patterns – 1915

William Wordsworth – The world is too much with us – 1807

Robert Herrick – To the virgins , to make much of time – 1646

Sherman Alexie – Evolution – 1992

Jane Flanders – Cloud Painter – 1984

F.J. Bergmann – An Apology – 2003

Ezra Pound – In the station of the metro – 1916

Gary Snyder – Some good things to be said for the iron age – 1970

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI – Constantly Risking Absurdity – 1958

AUDRE LORDE  – Rooming houses are old women – 1968

Robert Burns – Oh, my love is like a red, red rose – 1796

1. SCOTT MOMADAY – Simile – 1974

ANDREW MARVELL – To his coy mistress – 1681

COUNTEE CULLEN – Incident – 1925

RICHARD LOVELACE – To Lucasta Going to the Wars – 1649

NANCY MERCADO – Going to work – 2001

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