Power Poet Chosen is Seamus Heaney 1. Who was your poet and why were they important? How did the history of their times affect their writings? What “major message” is your poet trying to teach you through his poetry? 2. Focusing on a minimum of three (3) poems by your poet, find a common theme […]
poetry in different texts. Choose a text (i.e., a poem, a song, an advertisement, etc., and preferably one not discussed in class) and specifically explain how it may be treated as a poem. Although you will likely need to provide a brief analysis of the text and explain “what the poem means”, the focus of […]
Choose Poetry This week you will use your readings from the past week as a point of departure to create your own artistic production and a reflection paper. Part 1: Art Creation Select a poem, musical piece, or dance piece to use as a point of inspiration. Create a work of poetry, lyrics, music, or […]
Cesare Pavese’s “The Paper-Smokers” Translation Here are the instructions for our third response paper. This week we read a poem, Pavese’s “The Paper-Smokers.” As you know, poems are generally complex literary texts, in which every word has been chosen by the author with care and every detail is important. For this reason, I’m asking you […]
This week, we will begin research on your poem for the first major essay. To help get you started, below are a series of resources you can use to complete the required research component of the unit. Watch: Watch the following video on research and academic databases: Academic Databases: AcademicDatabases.mp4 Play media comment. End Citation […]
