Overview
Choose one of the poems that you read over the last two weeks. There is no right or wrong analysis as long as lines from the poem (evidence) can be used to defend those ideas. Use the same explication technique you used earlier in the semester to write about short stories. View the presentation below and then download the outline to help you organize your essay.
COMPLETE THIS ACTIVITY ON INTEGRATING QUOTES FROM POETRY.
REMEMBER: Do not summarize; we have all read the poems. Analyze. The essay should be a minimum of 500 words and should follow MLA format. Properly formatted internal citations and works cited page are required.
- CLAUDE McKAY, The Harlem Dancer 917
- ADA LIMÓN, Dandelion Insomnia 917
- Simile and Analogy 918
- TODD BOSS, My Love for You Is So Embarrassingly 918
- Metaphor 919
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, That time of year thou mayst in me behold 919
- JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA, Immigrants in Our Own Land 920
- Personification 922
- EMILY DICKINSON, Because I could not stop for Death— 922
- Metonymy and Synecdoche 923
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, London, 1802 923
- TRACY K. SMITH, Ash 924
- EMMA BOLDEN, House Is an Enigma 925