Poetry

  1. Explicate Goodison’s “Mother, the Great Stones Got to Move.” Identify the poem’s setting and situation. What is the subject of the poem? What message does the poem communicate […]

Poetry

    Read https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem and http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/protest/text11/hugheslandlord.pdf by Langston Hughes, and “Loveliest of Trees (Links to an external site.)” by A. E. Houseman. How would you categorize each poem (lyric, narrative, […]

Poetry

Poetry has a lasting impact if it connects us with the history or consciousness of its moment. Regardless whether we find our way into a poem through a historical context, […]

Poetry

Practice the process of interpreting and supporting claims about literature. Our focus in this unit is on how poetry makes meaning through formal literary elements and how interpretations of these […]