Peotry Paper

****NEED THIS DONE BY 10pm EASTERN TIME TONIGHT!!!****

Write a 750-word (approximately 3 pages) essay that analyzes 1 poem.

 Must include, a title page, the essay itself followed by a works cited/references/bibliography page of any primary and/or secondary texts cited in the essay. 

Choose 1 of the poems from the list below to address in your essay:

• “The Lamb,” “The Tiger,” and “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake

• “Batter my heart, three-personed God” and “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne

• “Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot

• “God’s Grandeur” and “Spring” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

• “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats

• “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

• “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning

• “Sailing to Byzantium” by William Butler Yeats

• “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

• “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves” and “There’s No Frigate Like a Book” by Emily Dickinson

• “Ulysses” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Psalm 1 or 23

• “Virtue” by George Herbert

• “That Time of Year” (Sonnet 73) by William Shakespeare

Consider answering the following questions about the poem that you have chosen:

• What is/are      the theme(s) of the poem?
• Is there a      literal setting or situation in the poem? What lines from the poem tell      the reader this information? What details does the author include?
• Is the      setting symbolic?
• How would you      describe the mood of the poem? What elements contribute to this mood?
• Is the title      significant to the poem’s content or meaning? How?
• What major      literary devices and figures of speech does the poet use to communicate      the theme(s)?
• How are rhyme      and other metrical devices used in the poem? Do they support the poem’s      overall meaning? Why or why not?
• Is the      identity of the poem’s narrator clear? How would you describe this person?      What information, if any, does the author provide about him or her?
• Does the      narrator seem to have a certain opinion of or attitude about the poem’s      subject matter? How can you tell?

 You do not need to answer all of the questions in, only include those answers that directly support your thesis statement.