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