Close Reading of a Poem

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Select a poem from this week’s readings.

Submit a 900- word paper based on a close reading of this poem.

Include your interpretation of the poet’s thoughts and feelings, along with details about how the poet used literary conventions and poetic devices such as meter, imagery, and symbolism to communicate the meaning of the poem.

Conclude with an explanation of how the poet and readers rely on imagination for interpreting the meaning of the selected poem.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Literature for Composition, Poetry

Read the following selections from Literature for Composition:

· "Mending Wall," Robert Frost (pp. 222-224)

· "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," T. S. Eliot (pp. 224-228)

· "Daddy," Sylvia Plath (pp. 542-544)

· "Before the Mirror," John Updike (pp. 582-583)

· "On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City," Sherman Alexie (pp. 677-678)

· "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," Christopher Marlowe (pp. 723-724)

· "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," Sir Walter (pp. 724-725)

· "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," John Donne (pp. 729-730)

· "To His Coy Mistress," Andrew Marvell (pp. 730-732)

· "Love in Place," Nikki Giovanni (pp. 736)

· "My Papa's Waltz," Theodore Roethke (pp. 763)

· "Rites of Passage," Sharon Olds (pp. 764-765)

· "Woman's Work," Julia Alvarez (pp. 766-767)

· "Child of the Americas," Aurora Levins Morales (pp. 1135-1136)