Poetry Essay #2: Themes of Love Family, Friendship, and Nature in Contemporary American Poetry
I. Purpose
This assignment will help you practice the following skills that are important for your success in this course and offer knowledge important beyond the contexts of this assignment, this course, and this college:
Analyze significant primary texts as forms of cultural and creative expression.
Explain the ways in which humanistic or artistic expression reflects the culture and values of its time and place.
Frame a comparative context to critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that shape the texts.
Analyze how an established American poet addresses one of the following issues in their work: love, family, friendship, and the examination of the natural world.
Skills: The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course, school, field of poetry, and in professional life beyond school:
Analyzing literary texts
Apply an understanding of essential poetic techniques
Evaluating the social and cultural merits of an important work of literature
Researching college-level sources
Knowledge: This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:
Articulate how a poet’s use of word choice contributes to tone and theme
Identify how poets use essential literary elements such as simile, metaphor, and imagery
Describe the ways in which poets use sonic elements such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance
Poetry Essay #2: Themes of Love Family, Friendship, and Nature in Contemporary American Poetry
I. Purpose
This assignment will help you practice the following skills that are important for your success in this course and offer knowledge important beyond the contexts of this assignment, this course, and this college:
Analyze significant primary texts as forms of cultural and creative expression.
Explain the ways in which humanistic or artistic expression reflects the culture and values of its time and place.
Frame a comparative context to critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that shape the texts.
Analyze how an established American poet addresses one of the following issues in their work: love, family, friendship, and the examination of the natural world.
Skills: The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course, school, field of poetry, and in professional life beyond school:
Analyzing literary texts
Apply an understanding of essential poetic techniques
Evaluating the social and cultural merits of an important work of literature
Researching college-level sources
Knowledge: This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:
Articulate how a poet’s use of word choice contributes to tone and theme
Identify how poets use essential literary elements such as simile, metaphor, and imagery
Describe the ways in which poets use sonic elements such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance
Poetry Essay #2: Themes of Love Family, Friendship, and Nature in Contemporary American Poetry
I. Purpose
This assignment will help you practice the following skills that are important for your success in this course and offer knowledge important beyond the contexts of this assignment, this course, and this college:
Analyze significant primary texts as forms of cultural and creative expression.
Explain the ways in which humanistic or artistic expression reflects the culture and values of its time and place.
Frame a comparative context to critically assess the ideas, forces, and values that shape the texts.
Analyze how an established American poet addresses one of the following issues in their work: love, family, friendship, and the examination of the natural world.
Skills: The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course, school, field of poetry, and in professional life beyond school:
Analyzing literary texts
Apply an understanding of essential poetic techniques
Evaluating the social and cultural merits of an important work of literature
Researching college-level sources
Knowledge: This assignment will also help you to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline:
Articulate how a poet’s use of word choice contributes to tone and theme
Identify how poets use essential literary elements such as simile, metaphor, and imagery
Describe the ways in which poets use sonic elements such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance
