Poetry Analysis Essay Assignment
Essay Due Sunday, 3/16 by 11:59pm
Pick a poem about nature that is at least 14 lines from the poets.org (https://poets.org/), Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/), and Katherine D Perry (Katherine D. Perry - Home) websites. Searching by themes or topics on the first two websites can help you identify nature poetry. You can use a poem not from these three websites, but you need to get permission from me first.
You will then write an essay of between 1,000 and 1,500 words analyzing what the poem is saying about nature. You need to use specific, brief, cited quotes from the poem to support your argument, and you need to analyze how they do. You need one or two pieces of cited evidence from one secondary source that help support your argument. This source can be on the specific poem, the author of the poem, or nature poetry in general.
Your essay must have an argumentative thesis, clear logical organization, and well-structured paragraphs with argumentative topic sentences, concrete evidence, and well-developed analysis of how that evidence supports the argument of the topic sentence, which should connect to the thesis. Make sure the argument of the thesis is focused, and do not try to cover everything the poem is saying about nature.
This essay, and all of your other essays, should be in the third person, 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced using MLA 9th edition format. You must include a works cited page and in-text citations for this essay.
Use these library databases to find poet biographies, poetry criticism, and articles about the topics & themes in your poem.
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