Compose a 750 to 1250 word essay using one of the following questions:
1. Identify one dominant theme in each of the 2 poems provided. Construct an argument about how the tone, speaker, and diction help in developing that theme.
2. Examine the use of figures of speech in each of the 2 poems provided. What role does figurative speech play in each work?
Please construct an overall thesis for in the essay that addresses one of the prompts above and then using quotations and references to specific scenes from the works you select as evidence to support your argument.
Please use these poems listed below.
William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
Robert Frost, “Out, Out–”
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In case of issue with the titles I have chosen I have added additional titles to use if needed. Thank you.
Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
Shakespeare, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”
Robinson, “Richard Cory”
Collins, “Introduction to Poetry”
Blake, “The Garden of Love”
Hughes, “Theme for English B”
Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”
Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”
Auden, “The Unknown Citizen”
Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”