Discuss the ways in which the poet(s) you studied use places to present ideas.

Choose one of the following topics, and write a 1000 word essay in response using 2-4 poems you have read for this class as support:
Compare the ways in which the poets you studied create pictures with words in order to engage the heart and mind of the reader.
How did the poets you studied use the experiences of individuals to illustrate aspects of life that matter to us all?
“Poetry’s emotional impact comes more from the way it is composed than from its subject matter.” Discuss this statement in relation to the poetry you studied.
How has your study of poetry enabled you to see the different ways in which poets explore the same subject?
Compare the techniques that the poets use to explore the idea that truly significant battles are fought within oneself.
Discuss the ways in which the poet(s) you studied use places to present ideas.
Discuss the ways in which the poet(s) explore one or more of the following:
Anger • Awe • Acceptance • Distress • Delight.
‘Life: futile or fulfilling?’
In what different ways do the poets you studied this year explore this question?

Poems are as follows:

William Blake, London
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall
William Blake, To see a world in a grain of sand
Edgar Allan Poe, from Ulalume
William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The splendor falls on castle walls
Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Break, Break, Break
A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty
Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!
Aaron Abeyta, thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla
Anonymous (Navajo chant), Last Words of the Prophet
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
W. H. Auden, Musée des Beau Arts
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
William Blake, The Tyger
Gwendolyn Brooks, the mother
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Quinceanera
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
Emily Dickinson, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death
John Donne, Death be not proud
John Donne, The Flea
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
Robert Frost, Birches
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
Seamus Heaney, Digging
George Herbert, Easter Wings
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover
A. E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Langston Hughes, Harlem [Dream Deferred]
Donald Justice, On the Death of Friends in Childhood
John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to be
Philip Larkin, Poetry of Departures
D. H. Lawrence, Piano
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo
John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent
Pablo Neruda, We are Many
Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
Henry Reed, Naming of Parts
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy
Christina Rossetti, Song
William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
William Shakespeare, My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astonomer
Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain!
William Carlos Williams, Queen-Anne’s-Lace
William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old

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