Audience: Someone who has read the poem
Length: Minimum of 800 words (3-4 pages, not counting works cited)
Sources: 1 primary source and 1 secondary source
You explicate one poem that we have studied demonstrating how a theme unfolds through the beginning, middle, and end of that literary text. The theme is “perception vs. reality.” The development emphasis is description (with strong details) to argue your interpretation of the literature.
In your introduction, you will state the theme (dealing in some manner with perception vs. reality). In the next paragraph, you will establish common ground with your audience, someone who has read the poem, by summarizing what at least one online study site or online reference site says about the work.
You will then explain through close reading how the presentation of language specifically and concretely promotes meaning, primarily through your declaration of how the theme of “perception vs. reality” is addressed through the text.
You will offer quotations from the beginning when you explicate the first part of the poem.
You will offer quotations from the middle when you explicate the second part of the poem.
You will offer quotations from the end of the poem when you explicate the last part of the poem.
The length of the poem will determine how many parts you must cover by providing descriptions from the primary source.
You will reaffirm the overall theme concerning “perception vs. reality” in your conclusion, and you will briefly mention the relevance of this poem in the summer of ‘24.
The works cited will contain the poem and the site(s) you summarize in your common ground paragraph.
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Outline:
Introduction
Source Summary
Explication of Beginning
Explication of Middle
Explication of End
Conclusion
Works Cited
