English 112
Professor: Fernando Benavidez
Essay 2: Critical Response to Poetry
DUE: SUNDAY, MARCH 11TH before 11:59PM
Poems to Consider: Some elements to consider:
Brooks “The Mother” Diction
Donne “Batter My Heart” Syntax
Bishop “The Fish” Imagery
Frost “Mending Wall” Simile
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/mending-wall Synecdoche
Whitman “Beat! Beat! Drums!” Tone
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174737 Irony
Clifton “homage to my hips” Form
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179615 Metaphor
Espada “Heart of Hunger” Symbolism
http://www.martinespada.net/Heart_of_Hunger.html
Arnold “Dover Beach”
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172844
Dickinson “I cannot live with you”
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-cannot-live-you-640
Shakespeare “Sonnet 18”
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/shall-i-compare-thee-summers-day-sonnet-18
Angelou “Caged Bird”
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48989
Assignment:
This next essay is “open” for you to analyze anything you feel you want to analyze. There are no specific questions for you to answer for this essay. Instead, you can choose one poem or you can compare two or three poems for this assignment. But, you must come….