Poetry Analysis Essay

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For your first poetry analysis essay, you should choose two poems from the ones below. They might have a similar theme or create the same kind of feeling as you read them. Develop an argumentative claim about this similarity. This is your thesis. Your essay should support your thesis with a textual analysis of both poems. Why do you make the claims that you make? What in the poems tells you this is reasonable etc? Your papers should be at least 1250 words and use MLA style. Remember to give your paper a title. Also, remember to do your own work. You are allowed to use the texts you choose in the anthology and your brain. No outside sources. Use of outside sources is considered plagiarism.

Week 1

Richard Cory p.735

I wandered Lonely as a Cloud p. 738

Introduction to Poetry p. 730

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways p. 776

I Celebrate Myself and Sing Myself p. 777

Ducle Et Decorum Est p.913

The Death... p.879

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning p. 1138

Week 2

Diggin p.1144

My Father’s Song p. 845

My Papa’s Waltz p. 857

The Tyger p. 1060

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? p. 878

To My Dear and Loving Husband p. 911