by Homework Owl | Mar 16, 2021 | Analysis, College (1-2), Poetry
This essay assignment is a poetry explication(an “explication” means “to make clear”) of any poem in Chapters 19-29. The idea is to pick a poem and basically explain its meaning, stanza by stanza or even line-by-line. Because much poetry involves subjective feeling,...
by Homework Owl | Jan 23, 2021 | Analysis, College (1-2), Poetry
Topic/Directions: A poetry explication is a “relatively short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem.” For this paper, you will choose one longer poem from the textbook and...
by Homework Owl | Jan 11, 2021 | Analysis, College (1-2), Discussion Essay, Poetry
Full Moon by Robert Hayden No longer throne of a goddess to whom we pray,no longer the bubble house of childhood’stumbling Mother Goose man,The emphatic moon ascends–the brilliant challenger of rocket experts,the white hope of communications men.Some I...