Compare two poems

Write an analytical essay exploring how two poems from our text communicate similar themes using POETIC ELEMENTS.
Decide whether you think the poetic devices and elements worked well to convey the theme and message.
Use literary terms to analyze textual examples
Be sure and explore who the speaker is, who he/she is speaking to, etc.
Describe what FORM (prose, villanelle, sonnet, etc) the poem is and how this adds to (or takes away from) the effect of the poem
Explain how/why this poem and its message/theme is significant to you or others in society. What can it do for a person, how can it help or capture a certain something, as you read it? Can you relate? BE SURE TO ANALYZE THE TEXT–explain what the lines mean and how that relates to your thesis.

Love & Longing: “you fit into me” Margaret Atwood; “She Walks in Beauty” Byron; “Litany” Collins; “The Flea” Donne; “Clothes” Divakaruni ; “Last Night” Olds

Culture and Identity: “Green Chile” Baca; “AmeRican” Laviera; “We Real Cool” Brooks; “Ethnic Poetry” Marzan; “Snapping Beans” Parker

Nature: “Under Cherry Trees” Basho; “Suburban” Ciardi; “l(a” Cummings; “Presentiment–is that long shadow–on the lawn–” Dickinson ; “God’s Grandeur” Hopkins; “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now” Housman; “After Basho” Kizer; “To Autumn” Keats ; “Root Celler” Roethke; “Ode to the West Wind” Shelley; “When I heard the learned Astronomer” Whitman; “The World is too Much With Us” Wordsworth

Violence, War, Peace: “next to of course god America I” cummings; “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” Jarrell; “Casual Wear” Merrill; “Dulce et Decorum Est” Owen; “They” Sassoon; “The Hand that Signed the Paper” Thomas; “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” Whitman

READ ALSO : “In a Stranger’s Backyard” and “Confession,” the final chapters in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine (2002), involve scenes in which characters return to significant places after periods of dispossession. Such returns highlight changes in character and place. Topic: “In a Stranger’s Backyard” and “Confession,” the final chapters in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine (2002), involve scenes in which characters return to significant places after periods of dispossession. Such returns highlight changes in character and place. Write a 1000-word essay in which you analyze the significance of return after dispossession. Your understanding of the significance of return should be demonstrated through analysis of relevant passages drawn from relevant scenes—where those passages or scenes might demonstrate a before/after quality. The audience for this assignment consists of your peers and me, readers familiar with the novel. Outcomes: Successful responses to this assignment require: • Development of an argumentative thesis; • Selection of evidence from the text relevant to the writer’s argument; • Discussion of the evidence selected from the text. Evaluation: Essays will be evaluated on the extent to which they meet the expectations set out in the assignment and detailed in the Rubric for Essays. Requirements: Please do not use any secondary sources related to either novel. Insert a footnote at the first mention of the text to provide bibliographic information regarding the edition you are citing. Use parenthetical citation to indicate page numbers of quotations. Useful advice on integrating quotations can be found at online sites such as Purdue University’s OWL and in handbooks such as Barnet and Cain’s A Short Guide to Writing

Home and Family: “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps” Kinnell; “Alzheimer’s” Cherry

Sexuality: “The Word Plum,” CHASIN; “Home-Baked Bread” CROFT; “Last Night” OLDS; “Seniors” RIOS; “Leda and The Swan” YEATS

Friendship: “Mending Wall” FROST; “Song of the Open Road” Whitman

Work: “What Work Is” LEVINE (Moodle link & handout); “Out, Out–” FROST; “The Chimney Sweeper” BLAKE; “AD” FEARING; “Love in LA” Gilb; “God’s Grandeur” HOPKINS; “When I Consider How My Light is Spent” MILTON; “Richard Corey” ROBINSON ; “Labor” WORMSER
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