Posted: July 19th, 2013
POETRY ESSAY
Choose one of the poems from the list below to address in your essay:
• The Lamb” or “The Tiger” or “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake
• “Batter my heart, three-personed God,” or “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne (watch the video lecture on John Donne’s “Batter my heart” for more ideas to help you write your essay on this poem).
• “Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot
• “God’s Grandeur” or “Pied Beauty” or “Spring” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• “Ode on a Grecian Urn” or “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats
• “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (watch the video lecture on Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” for more ideas to help you write your essay on this poem).
• “Sailing to Byzantium” by William Butler Yeats
• “The Road Not Taken” or “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
• “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves” or “There’s No Frigate Like A Book” by Emily Dickinson (Read Gilbert and Gubar’s “The Freedom of Emily Dickinson” for more ideas to help you write your essay on Dickinson’s poetry).
• “Ulysses” by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “That Time of Year” (Sonnet 73) by William Shakespeare (watch the video lecture on William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” for more ideas to help you write your essay on this poem).
• The Lamb” or “The Tiger” or “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake
• “Batter my heart, three-personed God,” or “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne (watch the video lecture on John Donne’s “Batter my heart” for more ideas to help you write your essay on this poem).
• “Journey of the Magi” by T. S. Eliot
• “God’s Grandeur” or “Pied Beauty” or “Spring” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• “Ode on a Grecian Urn” or “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats
• “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (watch the video lecture on Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” for more ideas to help you write your essay on this poem).
• “Sailing to Byzantium” by William Butler Yeats
• “The Road Not Taken” or “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
• “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves” or “There’s No Frigate Like A Book” by Emily Dickinson (Read Gilbert and Gubar’s “The Freedom of Emily Dickinson” for more ideas to help you write your essay on Dickinson’s poetry).
• “Ulysses” by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “That Time of Year” (Sonnet 73) by William Shakespeare (watch the video lecture on William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” for more ideas to help you write your essay on this poem).
Consider the following questions for the poem that you have chosen:
• What is or are the themes of the poem?
• Is there a literal setting or situation in the poem? What lines from the poem tell the reader this information? What details does the author include?
• Is the setting symbolic?
• How would you describe the mood of the poem? What elements contribute to this mood?
• Is the title significant to the poem’s content or meaning? How?
• What major literary devices and figures of speech does the poet use to communicate the theme(s)?
• How are rhyme and other metrical devices used in the poem? Do they support the poem’s overall meaning? Why or why not?
• Is the identity of the poem’s narrator clear? How would you describe this person? What information, if any, does the author provide about him or her?
• Does the narrator seem to have a certain opinion of or attitude about the poem’s subject matter? How can you tell?
• What is or are the themes of the poem?
• Is there a literal setting or situation in the poem? What lines from the poem tell the reader this information? What details does the author include?
• Is the setting symbolic?
• How would you describe the mood of the poem? What elements contribute to this mood?
• Is the title significant to the poem’s content or meaning? How?
• What major literary devices and figures of speech does the poet use to communicate the theme(s)?
• How are rhyme and other metrical devices used in the poem? Do they support the poem’s overall meaning? Why or why not?
• Is the identity of the poem’s narrator clear? How would you describe this person? What information, if any, does the author provide about him or her?
• Does the narrator seem to have a certain opinion of or attitude about the poem’s subject matter? How can you tell?
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