Module 9 - Discussion: Poetry
Subject
Writing
Question Description
Respond to this discussion activity by constructing a one-paragraph argument about one of the following topics in one of this module's assigned poems:
Denotation;
connotation;
figures of speech
simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, overstatement, understatement, metonymy, paradox and pun.
Once you have selected a topic:
Make a claim about how the literary element you've chosen contributes to the significance of the poem.
Add evidence to support your claim in the form of a quotation to illustrate the point you are making.
Add analysis by explaining how your quote proves or illustrates your claim
Poem list:
William Blake, “London”
Wallace Stevens, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
E. Cummings, “Next to of course god America I”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Eagle”
William Shakespeare, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Howard Moss, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
Emily Dickinson, “My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Flower in the Crannied Wall”
William Blake, “To see a world in a grain of sand”
Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors”