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Poetry is Powerful

"The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." 
- Walt Whitman

How to Write about Poetry

Read the definitions of explication and analysis on pages 5-7 of your Perrine text.  As we study poetry, you will need to practice both explication and analysis verbally and in written form.  Example essays:
  • A Study of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin:  After reading this poem, read the example explication essay and comments on page 46 of your Perrine text.  
  • Pathedy of Manners by Ellen Kay:  After reading this poem, read the example essay and comments on page 48 of your Perrine text.
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Poems for Study

COLLEGE BOARD
  • 2014 Question 1: "For That He Looked Not Upon Her"
  • 2014 Sample Responses (Commentary included)
  • 2003 Question 1: "Eros" & "Eros"
  • 2003 Sample Responses
  • 2003 Scoring Commentary
  • 2011 Question 1: "A Story" 
  • 2011 Sample Responses
  • 2007 Question 1: "A Barred Owl" & "The History Teacher"
  • 2007 Sample Responses

PRACTICE
  1. The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
  2. Dracula by Salwa Al-Neimi: Poetry Magazine
  3. Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti
  4. Fallen or Forbidden: Rosetti's Goblin Market
  5. Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
  6. Dolor by Theodore Roethke
  7. The Sleeper in the Valley  by Arthur Rimbaud

Sonnets

  1. How to Analyze a Shakespearean Sonnet
  2. Outline of Themes in Shakespeare's Sonnets
  3. Sonnet Handout - Basic Forms: English  & Italian
  4. Sonnet Forms - Making Observations
  5. Design by Robert Frost
  6. Sonnet 19
  7. Sonnet 116
  8. Sonnet by Billy Collins

Prompt:  Read the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson carefully.  How does Tennyson use literary elements to express the concept of death?
Crossing the Bar
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Sunset and evening star,
      And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
      When I put out to sea,

   But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
      Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
      Turns again home.

   Twilight and evening bell,
      And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
      When I embark;

   For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
      The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
      When I have crost the bar.



Prompt:  In the two poems below, Williams and Auden both reflect on similar concerns.  Read the poems carefully.  Then write an essay in which you compare and contrast the two poems, analyzing the poetic techniques each writer uses to explore suffering.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 
by William Carlos Williams

According to Brueghel 
when Icarus fell 
it was spring 

a farmer was ploughing 
his field 
the whole pageantry 

of the year was 
awake tingling 
near 

the edge of the sea 
concerned 
with itself 

sweating in the sun 
that melted 
the wings' wax 

unsignificantly 
off the coast 
there was 

a splash quite unnoticed 
this was 
Icarus drowning 
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.


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