Poetry Paper #2

Poetry Paper #2 – Using the suggestions on pp 5-7 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper either explicating or analyzing a poem from one of the lists below. This paper should be a minimum of 750 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:

Poem and topic of paper selected and e-mailed to me – Thursday 10/9
Thesis and outline of paper – Friday 10/10
First draft of paper – Tuesday 10/14
Second draft – Thursday 10/16
Final draft – Monday 10/20

Longer poems for analysis:

Wordsworth –
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
The Prelude
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
Coleridge –
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Dejection: An Ode
The Aeloian Harp
Blake –
The Book of Thel
Burns –
Tam O’Shanter
Byron –
Don Juan
Childe Harold
Shelley –
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Adonais
Keats –
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Eve of St. Agnes
Whitman –
Song of Myself
Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Shorter poems for explication:

Burns –
To a Mouse
Wordsworth –
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
She was a Phantom of Delight
Byron –
Prometheus
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
Blake –
The Little Black Boy
A Poison Tree
Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
Poe-
Sonnet – To Science
Annabel Lee