Poem Assignment
For this essay, choose three of the poems we will have read together in class and write a short analysis comparing and contrasting them. These can be poems you’ve imitated but they do not need to be.
Pick a theme of personal interest to focus on. Maybe you’re interested in comparing emotional tone or audience appeal across three different slam poems. Maybe you’re interested in the way poets create images or the way that poem titles affect your readings of the poems themselves.
Choose one element to focus on in your close critical reading of your three poems. Be sure to cite specific examples and/or lines from each poem.
Essay will be graded based on: clarity of connections between the three poems, close reading ability, use of clear and relevant examples from the poems.
Poems Discussed: In Drop
POEMS:
Chen, Chen. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. Rochester, NY: BOA
Editions. Ltd. 2017
Limón, Ada. Bright Dead Things. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2015.
