Please read “Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich, “Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “A Story About the Body,” by Robert Hass.
Poems links : https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46568/planetarium-56d2267df376c
https://genius.com/Robert-hass-a-story-about-the-body-annotated
Writing: Read through the poems carefully and write down as many observations as you can about the work and the language in each of them.
Write a 2-3 sentence summary of each piece. (If a complete summary is too difficult to manage, write down what you know is happening in each piece. These sentences are based purely on observation not on interpretation.
Looking for the ways the writers use sentence structure, phrases, and grammar and make some observations..
Examine word choice and any other details about language use that seem important to you.
Then think about ideas. What ideas are there in each piece? Is there an idea that you think all three of these poems share?
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