Does the sentence or passage you chose reflect something about your own attitudes toward or experience with poetry?

STEP ONE:
Read the page I have linked from Poets.org entitled”How to Read a Poem.” It offers a solid overview of how to approach and think about poetry.
Read the poems “On Turning Ten,” “Fifth Grade Autobiography” and “Elena.” Each poem is narrated by a first person speaker, a voice that speaks to us in the poem. Just as a fiction writer creates a character (like Nathan Shapiro from “The Lost World”) or a character who is also the narrator (like Grant Wiggins), a poet creates a speaker. We must begin by assuming that the speaker is separate from the poet him/herself unless evidence proves otherwise. Sometimes it is hard to separate the poet from the “I” voice in the poem but it is necessary when approaching a poem to examine things like language, structure, and theme. We want to be in the space of the poem rather than looking outside it for information.
Complete Discussion 1. This post will have two parts:
a.) Quote one sentence or passage from the Poets.org overview page and offer your own reaction to it. Does the sentence or passage you chose reflect something about your own attitudes toward or experience with poetry? Does it offer you a new idea to consider as we begin this part of our study?
b.) Choose one of the speaker poems you read and offer an analysis of it by answering the following questions one at a time. For each of the four questions you should offer your own idea in response to the question and a line or lines from the poem as textual evidence to support your point.

–How would you describe the speaker?
–What does the speaker reveal in the poem?
–What do you think is the most important thing the speaker tells us in the poem that is related to a larger idea or theme?
–Where in the poem does the language feel most strongly connected to the speaker’s emotions?

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STEP TWO:

The question you answered in your post about language connecting to the speaker’s emotions is one way to begin considering tone in a poem, which is the poet’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject of the poem. As readers we can often pick up the emotions or attitudes in a poem just as we can when we listen to someone speak, but when we study poetry we want to consider which elements of the poem are contributing to that feeling: imagery, figurative language, diction (word choice) and rhythm (including where line breaks are, which lines are short, and where a single word is emphasized) can all affect the tone of a poem.
Read the two poems by James Wright that are linked in the module: “A Blessing” and “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota.” After reading both poems, choose one and offer a close reading of it for Discussion 2. In your post, I want you to include at least two examples of where language affects tone to answer this question: how does Wright use language to reveal the speaker’s attitude toward his surroundings in the poem?
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STEP THREE:

Read:

“What’s that Smell in the Kitchen?”
“The Vacuum”
“Wedding Ring”
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
This set of poems offers examples of figurative language: simile, metaphor, and symbolism. Read carefully with those elements in mind. Then complete Discussion 3 by choosing any one of these four poems and offering a close reading of it. In your close reading, examine one example of figurative language or symbolism and try to connect it to other elements of the poem: what is the poem’s situation? How would you describe the speaker? What is the poet’s or speaker’s attitude toward the situation or theme of the poem? Can you make an observation about how the poem is structured, for example, is there any pattern in the stanzas or any significance in the progression of ideas, how the poem moves from beginning to end? Be sure offer at least two examples of textual evidence in this post.

Please pay attention to which poem you’re reading, don’t mess the discussion post order I put, theres three discussion posts *(each one has its own set of readings and questions), each one should be a page long, you don’t need to have a title or works cited page or a certain format or a header or anything like that, just straight up writing, but make sure you indicate for me which discussion post each page is and cite correctly when asked for according to the requirements or if you need to in order to prove a point. Again, please don’t mix the poems or use the wrong poem for any of the discussion posts, make sure you opened the right poem ! this is crucial. I have uploaded all the files you need for this assignment, and they are all named exactly the same as to what the requirements have it as. Thank you

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