poetry paper. 4 pages

4 pages, double space, standard margins. 250 words per page. 1000 words total. Due 20th.

Analyze it. Paper should be different.

What do you say about a poem? What do you have to do to set up a paper.

What’s involved in the paper?

To make it a good paper:

Organization: Start by introducing the reader to my way of thinking this poem.

What is the poem about? About a train? About birds?

What needs explanation in the poem?

The poem almost begins in the mist of conversation.

Sometimes comma, period, no punctuations. Analyze it.

Yes, he remembers the name of the Adelstruck. He remembers an afternoon that is very hot, platform, station. He wouldn’t see anything unless the sun is there. The train he takes.

For some reason, the express train which doesn’t stop in that little stop stopped. ----unusual

It was late June, summer, time when afternoon gets hot.

The next stanza deals with the experience of the stop. Hissed: some words can mean what they sound like. Someone cleared their throat, the sound of steam engine, sound quite musical. No one left, no one came, nothing seem to happened. Then we come to an end of a stanza, no punctuation, no strong ending.

The use of and, only the names.

Haycocks don’t move. The train isn’t there for long, and for that minute, one thing he remembers is the name of Adlestruck and Willow, grass.

One of the things we see about short poem is about shortness, brevity.

English blackbirds do not sound like American blackbirds, they are more like sound birds. They sang.

The brevity, stillness, quirkily coming to an end is maybe why this poem is widely appreciated after the war.

The second part of the poem is about what would be missed if the train does not stop at the small station.

It is a very subtle implication at the end of the poem for some

Oxford: the city

Oxford shire: the county

We can use contrast for approaching the poem