1. What is writing about?
2. As an exercise, pick one sample passage / stanzas from one of the poets you have studied from this semester which you admire and appreciate. Identify one PROMINENT feature in this passage that attracts your attention. Identify the effect the poet achieved--or was trying to achieve. What did the poet do to achieve this effect? (e.g. Did 'the tools' used serve a purpose? Were they effective? Was the effect appropriate for the purpose of the passage?) Provide examples. What can you infer the general style of the Poet based upon this sample?
3. Pick one sample passage / stanzas from the poets you have studied this year which you admire and appreciate. Explain what particular feature(s) about this passage you find ATTRACTIVE and EFFECTIVE, some feature(s) worth appropriating. Explain how the poet was able to achieve this desirable effect. What did the poet do to achieve this effect? (e.g. Did 'the tools' used serve a purpose? Were they effective? Was the effect appropriate for the purpose of the passage?) Generally, in what contexts would this effect be appropriate? Provide examples to illustrate your point.
NOTE: Remember, no poet will do anything "just to meet the meter". Always give the benefit of the doubt to the writer.
RECOMMMENDED TEXTS: Richard Lovelace "To Lucasta, going to the Wars" Alexander Pope from Essay on Criticism "Rape of the Lock" Jonathan Swift "The Lady's Dressing-Room" Thomas Gray "Elegy written in ..." Robert Burns "A Red, Red Rose" "Tam o' Shanter" William Blake' " The Echoing Green" "The lamb" & "The Tyger" "The Chimney Sweeper" "London" William Wordsworth "Tintern Abbey" Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Kubla Kahn" "The Rime of the Ancient..." Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias" 'Mont Blanc" "Ode to the West Wind" " When the Lamp is Shattered" Lord Byron from Childe Harold John Keats "Ode to Nightingale" "Ode to Grecian Urn" "Ode to Melancholy" | Lord Tennyson “On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria” A.E. Housman “1887” “Is my team plowing?” Thomas Hardy “The Man He killed” “WorkBox” “Hap” “… Digging on my Grave?” “Channel Firing” Edward Thomas “The Owl” “Rain” Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” Wilfred Owen “The Owl” “Arms and the Boy” “Spring offensive” “Dulce et Decorum Est” Sigfried Sassoon “Sick Leave” "The Kiss" Issac Roseberg “Dead Man’s Dump” D.H. Lawrence “The Wild Common” "Snake" "Love on the Farm" Robert Frost, "The Rose Family" |