Poems and Speakers

• The first resource provides you with some guidelines for reading any poem effectively.
• The first resource:  Poetry Reading-3.pptx
• The second resource supplies you with  information about the poems for this activity; this information can  guide your reading of them.
• The second resource:  Second Set of Poems (Duke and Mistress and Parents).pptx
• The third resource furnishes you with  information about MLA in-text citations, parenthetical references, and  works cited entries as they relate to poems.
• The third resource:  Brief MLA Review (ENC 1102 Poetry Essay)-5.pptx

Directions:

• Read "To a Daughter Leaving Home," by  Linda Pastan, on page 526; "Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden, on  page 559; and "My Last Duchess," by Robert Browning, on pages 692-694.
• Read pages 509-516 for information about the different kinds of speakers in poems.
• Answer the response items in the next section.
• Type your answers, and then save them as a Word document.
• When you are ready to submit the  activity, click the blue "Submit Assignment" tab in the upper right-hand  corner of the page.  Next, click "Choose File" to select the file to  submit, and then, click the blue "Submit Assignment" tab below the  comment section.  Include a comment only if one is needed. 

Response Items:

• Select one of three assigned poems, and use complete sentences when responding.
• Identify the speaker of the poem.
• Identify two personality traits associated with the speaker, and quote lines from the poem that reveal those personality traits.
• Include a parenthetical reference at the end of the sentence with a quotation and a works cited entry for the poem.