Choose ONE of the topics below on the poems and write a double-spaced essay supporting an interpretation of the poem. You can choose a formalist approach or any of the contextual approaches, but be sure to support your thesis with evidence from the poem itself. Also, be sure that you explain how that evidence fits your interpretation. You are trying to convince your reader that your way of approaching the poem is a reasonable one. ( You can also google the poems titiles and authors named are provided in the liet of topics)
TOPICS:
1.) Examine Theodore Roethke’s diction in “My Papa’s Waltz.” How and why does he use negative and positive connotations in his word choices to describe the young boy’s experience?
2.) What does Owen Wilfred in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” hope to achieve through his choice of imagery? How does he do so?
3.) Write an essay in which you analyze and explain how Langston Hughes uses metaphor in the poem “Harlem.”
Your essay should have a title, a hook or pull in to start the introduction, and a clear thesis statement with a claim and point of support. Each paragraph should begin with a topic sentence that is a claim about the poem that is related to your thesis statement. You should use carefully selected words, phrases, images, figures of speech, etc. as evidence to support your claims. All evidence should be supported by explanation and argument as well. Quoted material should be placed in quotation marks and followed by the line number or numbers in parentheses. Your paper should also contain a conclusion and a Works Cited page.
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