Choose ONE of the following essay prompts (you should not deal with more than two poems in you essay):
1. How does your identification and understanding of the genre of a poem (Elegy / Sonnet / Prayer / Concrete Poem) help you to understand its meaning?
2. Explore how a poet you have studied deals with societal expectation of gender.
3. Write an essay on the symbolic meaning of the rose in any (one or two) poems on the course.
4. Write about how a poet you have studied creates tone, or shifts tone in the course of a single work.
5. How does understanding the place of a poem (setting) help you understand what’s going on (situation) in it?
6. Write about the voice(s) that we hear in any poem that you have studied for this course.