This essay should be double spaced
It should be 2 1/2 to 3 pages long
You must use 2 sources of Literary Criticism in your analysis
You can use the analysis of the poems from the videos below, but you have to quote from them and cite the source wth the time range.
Even if you use the videos, you still need to research 2 works of literary criticism from the LaGuardia library.
Remember that this is your analysis, and you have to use the videos and the literary criticism sources to help support your own claims about the poem. Use your own words to explicate or extrapolate meaning from the poem of your choice.
“Traveling through the Dark” by William E. Stafford
Analysis
LINK: https://youtu.be/nrxSx6y0st0
or
“The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake
Documentary
LINK: https://youtu.be/ws1adpEy2Vs
or
“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
Reading and Analysis
LINK: https://youtu.be/BDK6hklSsE0
INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT POEM EXPLICATION:
Poem explication:
Read poem (at least 2 times/One shot reading, the other, a more focused reading).
Identify the speaker
Identify the theme (Dramatic conflict or situation/ no universal idea)
Always use present tense
Refer to parts of a poem by Stanzas and lines
Ex. The second stanza begins with an ominous prophetic voice asking “What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out of this stony rubbish?” (Eliot, lines 19–20).
Use slash to separate line breaks
Introduction
Begin immediately by informing the reader of the title and poet (In the poem xxxxxxxx by Dylan Thomas…Date if relevant). No hook necessary.
Identify the theme or dramatic conflict or situation of the speaker (identify speaker/not the poet)
No synopsis
Begin Thesis:
This poem dramatizes the conflict between…
Or
This poem dramatizes the situation of…
Body Paragraphs (Chronological, beginning, middle and end) 3 ideas (analyze word choice, tone (emotion or state of mind), imagery, metaphor, allusion)
Body 1
Body 2
Body 3
The conclusion
Write it after you have reached the end of the poem
Restate the dramatic conflict or situation
Final thought about relevance to life
Verbs to use:
Dramatizes
Presents
Characterizes
Implies
Emphasizes
Shows
Wonders
Alludes to
Asks
Thinks