Poetry essay

Think carefully about the relationship between form and content in one of the poems we’ve read. Identify a moment in the poem where you see some formal aspect of the poem working to reinforce or complement a key idea, thread, or question that the poem explores....

Poetry

Choose three of the speakers from any of the poems we read (Love Poems, Sound Poems, Figures of Speech Poems, “Closer to Fine,” “Richard Cory.” or one of the poems that someone recited) and persuade us that these speakers have something...

Poetry

Major Essays: The majority of your grade in this course comes from a sequence of papers based on the assigned literature. This assignment should use at least 7 sources. Six sources (SECONDARY) should be scholarly books or articles published within the last ten years....

First- and second-generation Romantic approaches to poetry

Critically analyse the similarities and differences you discern in first- and second-generation Romantic approaches to poetry. You should support your claims and analysis by referring to the work of at least four writers covered in Units 1-9. • an introduction that...

Elegy:

How does a particular poem defines “the work of mourning.” To whom is the mourning directed, and what forms does it take? Elegies: establish a poetic genealogy/ inheritance move from mourning to comfort/ consolation Poem about loss death meditation on ephemeral life/...

Major Themes in the Poetry of Elizabeth Browning

This paper must include besides what you recommend, these points: -Elizabeth Browning Biography and Major Works. -Period she lived in. -Poetry Style. -In what Elizabeth browning was famous for. -Major Themes in all of her poems with full explanation of critics and our...