by Belinder | May 19, 2022 | poetry
Death and isolation are common themes in Dickinson’s poetry, yet her poems rarely seem melancholy. What elements prevent her poems from becoming too solemn? A minimum of one (1) Figurative/Connotative Device found in the work should be...
by Belinder | Apr 7, 2022 | poetry
Analyze one of the Favorite Poem Project videos Like last week, you can choose a creative OR a more traditional analysis approach to this week’s journal. Please see the two options below and choose one of them. Take on Jack’s persona...
by Dan | Apr 7, 2022 | poetry
Compare and contrast three poets, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe
by Belinder | Apr 3, 2022 | poetry
You were assigned to read either “The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens or “The Truth the Dead Know” by Anne Sexton. Please choose one to read....
by Dan | Mar 3, 2022 | poetry
You’ve read the poems “Execution” and “Summer Solstice, New York City,” Write at least 500 words on what you’ve learned about life from one or both of them (your claim). Use specific examples to back up your claim and cite the...
by Belinder | Jan 30, 2022 | poetry
Walt Whitman is often considered to be a larger-than-life poet, writing expansive lines and embracing the whole of America as his inspiration. In “Song of Myself,” however, he writes, “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.” The...