The critical approaches in the Week 4 lesson, and choose 2 that you think could be used to analyze the poem .

Explain how using each approach might affect your understanding of the poem. Would you focus on different parts of the poem? Different themes? Why? Make sure to support your claim with examples from the lessons, readings, and the poem itself.

End by explaining which critical approach seems to be more suited to the poem you chose. Be sure to explain your reasons for thinking this.

Please divide your posts into paragraphs for easier reading, and make sure to reference, paraphrase, or quote specific passages from the text to support and illustrate what you say.

200-300 words

MLA format

*Literary Critical Theory:

Historicism

New Criticism 

Archetypal criticism 

Psychoanalytic criticism 

Feminist criticism 

Marxist criticism 

cultural criticism 

New Historicism 

Reader-Response criticism 

Deconstruction