Poetry Question

Instructions:

you pick one of the poems from the poetry packet

Explication (Short Paper), Poetry Presentations

For this assignment, you will write an explication of a poem from the Poetry Packet. The explication will take the form of a close reading of the poem in (approximately) 2 pages. Your explication should consider the 10 steps listed on the “How to Explicate a Poem” handout  It is worth 10 points. For more information, consult Purdue OWL at https://bit.ly/3azr83B.

For this typed, double-spaced assignment, you need write only 2 pages. For details on formatting, consult my handout on Blackboard entitled “Formatting Your Essays.”

Consider the explication as a line-by-line reading of the poem. You may need to find a way of dividing the poem into logical “thought unites” (such as stanzas or sentences) to do justice to the poem in its entirety.

For this assignment, use appropriate literary terms from the handouts on Blackboard. [However, don’t simply say, “There is a metaphor in this poem” identify it!]

A close reading of the poem will allow you to identify “how” the poem gets its effects.