Describe the object of your analysis and identify the patterns, elements, references, or features that interest you.

For this assignment, you will be writing an essay about a text that is open to interpretation. Your goal therefore, is to present an argument that supports your personal interpretation of the piece of text
The poem selection is: Cause I Ain’t Got A Pencil–a poem by Joshua T. Dickerson

Your analytical essay should do the following three things:
Describe the object of your analysis and identify the patterns, elements, references, or features that interest you.
Examine how these elements are connected to certain larger themes, ideas, ideologies, representations, historical contexts, or traditions? (Think what does this remind me of?)
Argue for a particular interpretation, a particular answer to the question: What might this mean?
Priorities for this assignment:
Analyze, interpret, and evaluate the “text provided.
Identify literary devices and explain their effect.

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