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select a poem from the list of poemsPick ONE:• Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet 75”• William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”• Kim Addonizio, “First Poem for You”• Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”• Sharon Olds, “I go back to May 1937”• Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”• Seamus Heaney, “Digging”• Marge Piercy, “Barbie Doll”• Jeanette Armstrong, “History Lesson”• Margaret Atwood, “[you fit into me]”• Wilfred Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”Your essay should include an introductory paragraph, a thesis statement, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.• Your thesis for this paper should identify how the poet uses literary devices to convey a theme/central idea of the poem.Some of the literary devices that we’ve discussed include the following: symbolism, figurative language such as metaphors, similes, imagery, hyperbole, personification, as well as devices of form & sound (assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc. Other literary devices like irony, tone, point of view, character/characterization, and allusion may also be used in your essay.An example thesis for a poetry analysis essay:• Margaret Atwood uses symbolism, imagery, and metaphor in the poem “[you fit into me]” to convey the pain and pleasure of a romantic relationship.When adding quotations from a poem into your essay, you should follow the guidelines provided:• When you quote a single line of poetry, write it like any other short quotation. If the piece of poetry you are quoting crosses multiple lines of the poem itself, you may still type them in your text run together. Show the reader where the poem’s line breaks fall by using slash marks.Ex. In his poem, “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost writes: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,/ that send the frozen-ground-swell under it” (42-44).• If the quotation is three lines or longer, set it off like a block quotation. Quote the poem line by line as it appears on the original page. Do not use quotation marks, and indent one inch from the left margin.In his poem “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost questions the building of barriers and walls:Before I built a wall I’d ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense. (2-5)• Rather than citing the page number after a quotation as you would with a short story, you should include the line numbers in brackets after the quotation.

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