The first critical approach that I believe that can be used when studying this poem is the use of Reader-Response criticism. From what I understand, this method is used to make the readers follow the author in what the author …
To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet Poem Critique Read more »
The poem assigned to me this week was “Do not go into that good night by Dylan Thomas.” The poem was about a gentleman dying and the speaker is telling him that we should fight death with rage. During the …
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When I read the title and author I was instantly excited because I am familiar with Hughes work! The title Harlem automatically triggered images of the Harlem Renaissance for some reason. I still had to re- read the poem three …
The poem selected for me after completing the literary quiz for week four was, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” by Walt Whitman. Analyzing this poem through critical lenses was very challenging. In order to present my best analysis, I …
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For this week’s forum, I was given “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe. It is story of a love stricken shepherd who is trying to get his love to live with him. He does this by describing how life …
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This week I was assigned Walt Whitman’s poem, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”. Another piece of work from an artist that I have truly enjoyed as I am familiar with a lot of Walt Whitman’s pieces and he is …
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Phillis Wheatley’s On Being Brought from Africa to America is a short eight-line poem that is written in a closed poetic form. The poet writes the poem with first-hand experience, having been brought to the United States as a slave from Africa. …
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. I was quite surprised to have this selected for me because this was one that I’m quite familiar with as I have heard the song many times. It always seemed to me to be a very cheerful and patriotic …
This Land Is Your Land” by Woodie Guthrie Overview Read more »
This poem is written in iambic tetrameter and there are elements of rhyming and repetition. The last word in each line rhymes with the last word of the line before, for every two lines. The repetition of the line “live …
Starting off, I am not much of a poetry reader so understanding this poem was a bit challenging for me. It is clear enough to be understood as a poem written by a man to a women that he highly desires. Not …
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