A literary analysis on a poem. Therefore, you must use a dictionary (online or book) to define at least 2 words from the poem, in addition to your regular research requirement. Overall, your essay should provide a thorough analysis of the poem. You may choose to do an explication of the poem, where you really dissect and move through the poem (see page 1941 in “Writing”), or you may examine the poetic elements present (figurative language, imagery, symbolism, rhyme, etc), or the influence of the author/time period on the speaker and/or work, or the use of setting, purpose, theme and/or tone, or you may find your own combo of the above elements as you start your writing. Some of these poems really require you to just dive into the overall meaning of the poem and how it comes together you need to have: 5 direct quotations from the poem 2 direct or indirect quotations from outside source (book/database) 2 definitions from a dictionary.
Don’t forget to use slash marks (/) to indicate line breaks and line numbers in the in-text citations. In addition to the primary text (poem), you must use at least 2 outside sources. I’m not counting the dictionary definitions in this category. This source can be either a book or an article from an online database. You may use additional (reliable) sources from the Internet as long as you first meet the book/database requirement. choose between one of these poems below: Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare The Day of Judgment Jonathan Swift The Chimney Sweeper William Blake To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick She Walks in Beauty George Gordon, Lord Byron When We Two Parted George Gordon, Lord Byron Love’s Philosophy Percy Bysshe Shelley La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats Lines on the Mermaid Tavern John Keats When the Lamp is Shattered Percy Bysshe Shelley When You Are Old William Butler Yeats How Do I Love Thee Elizabeth Barrett Browning Porphryia’s Lover Robert Browning I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth The Author to Her Book Anne Bradstreet A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson Because I Could Not Stop for Death Emily Dickinson We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe Invictus William Henley Still I Rise Maya Angelou A Process in the Weather of the Heart Dylan Thomas The Hand that Signed the Paper Dylan Thomas Reason and Passion Kahlil Gibran If You Forget Me Pablo Neruda Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks Pablo Neruda Mirror Sylvia Plath Life is Fine Langston Hughes Mother to Son Langston Hughes
