{"id":34875,"date":"2024-10-14T03:43:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/poetry-essay-2-themes-of-love-family-friendship-and-nature-in-contemporary-american-poetry\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T03:43:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T03:43:29","slug":"poetry-essay-2-themes-of-love-family-friendship-and-nature-in-contemporary-american-poetry","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/poetry-essay-2-themes-of-love-family-friendship-and-nature-in-contemporary-american-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Essay #2: Themes of Love Family, Friendship, and Nature in Contemporary American Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Poetry Essay #2: Themes of Love Family, Friendship, and Nature in Contemporary American Poetry<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 20px 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">I. Purpose<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; cursor: auto;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">This assignment will help you practice the following skills that are important for your success in this course and offer knowledge important&nbsp;beyond the contexts of this assignment, this course, and this college:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Analyze significant primary texts as forms of cultural and creative expression.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Explain the ways in which humanistic or artistic expression reflects the culture and values of its time and place.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Frame a comparative context to critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that shape the texts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Analyze how an established American poet addresses one of the following issues in their work: love, family, friendship, and the examination of the natural world.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Skills<\/strong><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">:<\/strong>&nbsp;The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course, school, field of poetry, and in professional life beyond school:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Analyze literary texts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Apply an understanding of essential poetic techniques<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Evaluate the social and cultural merits of an important work of literature<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Exercise critical thinking skills<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Research college-level sources<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Knowledge:<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Articulate how a poet\u2019s use of word choice contributes to tone and theme<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Identify how poets use essential literary elements such as simile, metaphor, and imagery<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Describe how poets use sonic elements such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 20px 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">II. Task<\/span><\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; cursor: auto;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Write a&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1000-<\/strong>word essay on a poem you\u2019ve read that deals with one of the following issues: love, family, friendship, or nature. The essay must either paraphrase or quote from two reliable, college-level sources of research (see below for a list of approved websites and suggested databases from the college library). Scholarly sources can comment on the poet, the particular poem you\u2019ve chosen, or on a particular poetic technique. Use of<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Wikipedia<\/em><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>and similar general knowledge websites is not permitted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Remember that it is important to quote directly from the poem in support of your observations. All quotations must be integrated, cited, and quoted correctly.<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">This document<\/a><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>lays out MLA&#8217;s rules for formatting and citing poetry in your text. For you auditory\/visual learners, this video will help ensure you&#8217;re following&nbsp;<a style=\"cursor: auto;\">MLA&#8217;s rules properly.<\/a><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Your essay must also contain a Works Cited page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Please remember that the elements of poetry you choose to discuss depend upon the poem itself. While one paper might have to spend a significant amount of time discussing imagery and metaphor, another essay about a different poem might focus on sonic elements of a poem like assonance\/consonance, alliteration and rhyme. Allow the elements of the poem and its primary theme(s) to decide what you will focus on in your essay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Your essay must have an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. It must also have a thesis statement; you are writing a literary analysis, so your essay must make an argument addressing how the poet employs the elements of poetry to address its central issue and convey key themes. Present your thesis in the introduction, then develop each of your points in support of that thesis. Do not spend time too much time on biographical information beyond the introduction\u2014stay focused on the poem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Your analysis should consider each of the following:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What point or theme is the poem is trying to convey? It may be helpful to write out a summary of the poem before beginning your essay.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What is the poem\u2019s structure and how does it contribute to conveying it central theme(s)?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What poetic techniques is the poet using, and how do they contribute to conveying the poem\u2019s central theme(s)? Be sure to consider imagery, symbolism, simile, metaphor, and irony.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What are the sonic elements of the poem? Do they contribute to conveying the poem\u2019s central themes? Be sure to consider rhyme, alliteration, consonance, and assonance.<br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 20px 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Approved websites and suggested library databases:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; cursor: auto;\">\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">The Poetry Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\">The Academy of American Poets<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The following can be found on the NSCC library page under \u201c<a style=\"cursor: auto;\">Articles and Databases<\/a>\u201d. And don\u2019t be afraid to try the library\u2019s chat function if you need additional assistance:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">The Gale Literature Resource Center<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Academic Search Premier<br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 20px 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">III. Criteria for Success<\/span><\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1; cursor: auto;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">A successful essay will:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Clearly explain the issue the poem is addressing<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Offer a brief summary of the poem<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Analyze the poem\u2019s central theme(s)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Demonstrate an understanding of the poem\u2019s structure<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Demonstrate an understanding of poetic technique<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Support its analysis using specific examples from the poem<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Supplement its analysis&nbsp;with&nbsp;2 college-level sources<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Use correct MLA 9<sup style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">th<\/sup>&nbsp;ed. format for in-text citations and a list of Works Cited.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Use academic English and be carefully proofread\/spell-checked.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry Essay #2: Themes of Love Family, Friendship, and Nature in Contemporary American Poetry I. 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