Having read and annotated it, focus on a specific theme in the poem and explore it in 500-600 words (5 ¶s, double-spaced, in a mature font).
Make sure that your thesis adheres to one of the three options from the thesis handout (link). The first part of the thesis will be specific to the poem (something explicit from the poem) and the second part will go beyond the poem itself to show something more about life, humanity, etc., while broadening our understanding of the poem itself. Therefore, this paper is to analyze the poem while relating it to life. MANDATORY ESSAY ORGANIZATION (link).
Italicize, bold or underline the thesis statement.
The first part of each of the argument paragraphs will analyze the text, and the second part will relate that analysis to life nowadays (link).
The introductory ¶ should have only two sentences, one of which will be the thesis statement.
The paper cannot earn more than 60% without the required organization and thesis.
No title page is necessary, but title your essay in an original manner and put your name on the paper as well in the upper left corner.
This is to be your own, original work, without referring to any outside sources or commentaries. However, this is not an “I” paper.
Use present tense.
Do not use “you.”
Please do not organize your paper based on the original organization of the poem, stanza by stanza.
Do not focus on the literary devices used by the author (e.g., diction, tone) but rather on the actual content.
Include a brief heading with your name, assignment, date and course.
Include the word count at the top of the paper
Poems: My Heart Leaps up When I Behold Jabberwocky Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers My Last Duchess My Papa’s Waltz I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The Red Wheelbarrow The Chimney Sweeper I Like to See It Lap the Miles A Route to Evanescence My Life Had Stood – A Loaded Gun The Lightning Is a Yellow Fork A Dying Tiger – Moaned for Drink Success Is Counted Sweetest Wild Nights – Wild Nights I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain I’m Nobody! Who Are You? The Soul Selects Her Own Society Much Madness Is Divinest Sense I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died I Started Early – Took My Dog Because I Could Not Stop for Death Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day Metaphors The Times They Are a-Changin’ Break, Break, Break Resume Medusa Cinderella Ozymandias I, Too the mother How Do I Love Thee? The Flea The Convergence of the Twain Daddy My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
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