poetic analysis essay
poetic analysis essay - intro to poetry
Order Description
Examine a poem that deals with love and relate it to other poems on this topic.
Possibilities include Anonymous, “Alison”; Anonymous, “Western Wind”; Anonymous, “There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind”; Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Nymph’s Reply to the
Shepherd”; Edmund Spenser, excerpts from Amoretti; Sir Philip Sidney, excerpts from Astrophil and Stella; Samuel Daniel, excerpts from Delia; Michael Drayton, excerpts
from Idea; Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”; Thomas Campion, “My Sweetest Lesbia”; John Donne, “The Good-Morrow”; Ben Jonson, “Though I Am
Young and Cannot Tell”; Lady Mary Wroth, three sonnets from A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love; George Herbert, “Love (III)”; John Milton, “Methought I Saw”; Andrew
Marvell, “The Definition of Love”; Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty,” “When We Two Parted,” “So We’ll Go No More A-Roving”; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, excerpts from
Sonnets from the Portuguese; Dickinson, #249 (“Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”); e. e. Cummings, “somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond”; Robert Graves, “Love
Without Hope”; W. H. Auden, “As I Walked Out One Evening”; Theodore Roethke, “I Knew a Woman”; Gary Snyder, “Four Poems for Robin”; Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s
Tigers” and “Living in Sin.”
Rules:
-Written in MLA format
-Develop a clear thesis for your comparison
Please consider this poetry analysis direction:
https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/tlc/tipsheets/reading-and-analyzing/how-to-analyze-a-poem.pdf
In your essay you must use and cite at least three outside sources; you must quote in some form from at least two. “Outside sources” are texts that are neither the
primary subject of your paper nor readings on the course syllabus; presumably they will be critical or historical texts. At least one outside source must be a book
published by a university press (e.g., University of North Carolina Press, Stanford University Press). At least one source must be an article in a scholarly journal
(e.g., The Journal of Modern History, Contemporary Literature). Avoid using sources that are published exclusively on-line; consult me if you have questions.
end your essay with a Works Cited page. Attributions to the works listed there should be given parenthetically in your essay.
The best research tool for locating relevant secondary sources is the MLA International Bibliography, conveniently available on our library’s web page (under “Research
Databases”).