essay 2

1)  Examine Theodore Roethke's diction in "My Papa's Waltz."  How and why does he use negative and positive connotations in his word choices to describe the young boy's experience?

write an essay

Your essay should be at least 750 words long and should be double-spaced.  Your essay should have a title, a hook or pull in to start the introduction, and a clear thesis statement with a claim and point of support.  Each paragraph should begin with a topic sentence that is a claim about the poem that is related to your thesis statement.  You should use carefully selected words, phrases, images, figures of speech, etc. as evidence to support your claims.  All evidence should be supported by explanation and argument as well.   Quoted material should be placed in quotation marks and followed by the line number or numbers in parentheses.  Your paper should also contain a conclusion and a Works Cited page.  You might also check out the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University for help in writing about poetry (type OWL and Purdue into Google and, if prompted, choose the link that says "Non Purdue instructors and students).  Finally, check out the numerous examples of student essays in your anthology.  Good luck!