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and use quotes from her poem and the reasons why

Poetry Paper Parameters .English 1020 Essay 3 – Poetry

Essay Requirements:

1.Students can choose either poetry or song lyrics for this
assignment. Students can use more than one work in
their papers (perhaps several works from one author, several
works on the same theme, or several works from the same time
period) or can focus on just one. You can use poems
that you discussed in class.
2.There are two goals of the essay:
a.To analyze the poem(s) / song lyric(s) using poetry
formalist elements.
b.To use outside research to expand the analysis /
discussion of the short story through either application of
a school of critical theory (if using reader-response, you
must use an additional school of criticism – you must
conduct research for this paper) or by using literary
criticism written about the short story (using the
Literature Resource Center as accessed through the PGCC
Databases). You must use academic resources for this
paper. Sparknotes, CliffsNotes, GradeSaver or any study
guides, nor Wikipedia or free essay websites cannot be used
as research for the papers in this class.

3.Do not use first person (I, my, me, we, us) or second
person (you, your) when writing the essay (unless quoting a
source that uses first or second person).
4.The audience for the paper is an academic audience.
Academic audiences expect very few (if any) sentence level
errors and a professional, formal tone.
5.Essays must follow MLA format, both in appearance (Times
New Roman 12 point font, double spacing, first page heading,
pagination, etc.) and citation (works cited AND in-text
citation). Refreshers on MLA format are in Week 2 of
the Blackboard and Chapters 6 & 7 in your textbook.
6.The minimum length of each essay is 1250 words.
Essays may exceed the minimum; however, do not go over ten
pages. Essays shorter than 1250 words or over 10 pages
will be penalized one grade (ten points). The works
cited does NOT count towards word count.
7.The minimum amount of sources required for each essay is
two. One must be the poem(s) / song lyric(s) and the
other is the student’s choice (see 2b above).
Students are encouraged to use more than this, but two is
the minimum.
Terms from Chapter 21 – Understanding Poetry

Sonnet A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of
fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. There
are two basic types of sonnets, the Italian and the English.
The Italian sonnet, also known as the Petrarchan sonnet, is
divided into an octave, which typically rhymes abbaabba, and
a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes. Common rhyme
patterns in the sestet are cdecde, cdcdcd, and cdccdc. Very
often the octave presents a situation, attitude, or problem
that the sestet comments upon or resolves, as in John Keats’
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” The English sonnet,
also known as the Shakespearean sonnet, is organized into
three quatrains and a couplet, which typically rhyme abab
cdcd efef gg. This rhyme scheme is more suited to English
poetry because English has fewer rhyming words than Italian.
English sonnets, because of their four-part organization,
also have more flexibility with respect to where thematic
breaks can occur.
Frequently, however, the most pronounced break or turn
comes with the concluding couplet, as in Shakespeare’s
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

Narrative poem A poem that tells a story. A narrative poem
may be short or long, and the story it relates may be simple
or complex.

Epic A long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated
style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles
heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation.
Milton’s Paradise Lost , which attempts to justify the ways
of God to man,” is an epic.

Meditative poem A poem that abstractly ponders a concept or
idea.

Confessional poems Poems about personal experiences,
emotions, triumphs, and tragedies.

Lyric A type of brief poem that expresses the personal
emotions and thoughts of a single speaker. It is important
to realize, however, that although the lyric is uttered in
the first person, the speaker is not necessarily the poet.
There are many varieties of lyric poetry, including the
dramatic monologue, elegy, haiku, ode, and sonnet forms.

Ballad Traditionally,a ballad is a song, transmitted
orally from generation to generation, that tells a story and
that eventually is written down. As such, ballads usually
cannot be traced to a particular author or group of authors.
Typically, ballads are dramatic, condensed, and impersonal
narratives, such as Bonny Barbara Allan.” A literary ballad
is a narrative poem that is written in deliberate imitation
of the language, form, and spirit of the traditional ballad,
such as Keats’ La Belle Dame sans Merci.”
Ballad stanza A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain,
consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines.
Usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme (an abcb
pattern). Coleridge adopted the ballad stanza in The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner.”
All in a hot and copper sky
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Elegy A mournful, contemplative lyric poem written to
commemorate someone who is dead, often ending in a
consolation. Tennyson’s In Memoriam,” written on the death
of Arthur Hallam, is an elegy. Elegy may also refer to a
serious meditative poem produced to express the speaker’s
melancholy thoughts.

Ode A relatively lengthy lyric poem that often expresses
lofty emotions in a dignified style. Odes are characterized
by a serious topic, such as truth, art, freedom, justice, or
the meaning of life; their tone tends to be formal. There is
no prescribed pattern that defines an ode; some odes repeat
the same pattern in each stanza, while others introduce a
new pattern in each stanza.

Dramatic monologue A type of lyric poem in which a character
(the speaker) addresses a distinct but silent audience
imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to
reveal a dramatic situation and, often unintentionally, some
aspect of his or her temperament or personality.

Terms for Chapter 23 – Voice

Speaker The voice used by an author to tell a story or speak
a poem. The speaker is often a created identity, and should
not automatically be equated with the author’s self.

Persona Literally, a persona is a mask. In literature, a
persona is a speaker created by a writer to tell a story or
to speak in a poem. A persona is not a character in a story
or narrative, nor does a persona necessarily directly
reflect the author’s personal voice. A persona is a separate
self, created by and distinct from the author, through which
he or she speaks.

Dramatic monologue A type of lyric poem in which a character
(the speaker) addresses a distinct but silent audience
imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to
reveal a dramatic situation and, often unintentionally, some
aspect of his or her temperament or personality.

Tone The author’s implicit attitude toward the reader or the
people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the
elements of the author’s style. Tone may be characterized as
serious or ironic, sad or happy, private or public, angry or
affectionate, bitter or nostalgic, or any other attitudes
and feelings that human beings experience.

Epigram A brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes
a satiric or humorous point. Epigrams are most often written
in couplets, but take no prescribed form.

Irony A