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Due: ____________________________
Purpose: This project encourages you to enjoy an independent study of
poetry related to a topic of your own choice. A major goal of the assignment
is for you to become more sensitive to, and aware of, the poetic forms and the language
and musical devices that a poet considers when writing a poem. We'll become more acquainted with these
forms and devices by reading Perrine's Sound and Sense and by working on a variety of activities related to
poems.
Poetry project: Turn it in in booklet format (NOT IN A 3-RING BINDER) !
If you are absent, the poetry project must be turned in on the due date (emailed, if necessary then hard copy
upon return) or prior to the due date.
NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THE DUE DATE
NO MLA WORKS CITED = LOWER GRADE.
REMEMBER ALL WORK (PICTURES, WORDS, & IDEAS) MUST BE YOURS TO BE GRANTED CREDIT- DO NOT
PLAGIARIZE; ITS VERY EASY TO IDENTIFY. AS A SENIOR, THE CONSEQUENCES ARENT WORTH IT.
1. Choose five poets not covered in our discussion - from five different time periods/genres (DO NOT ANALYZE
SONG LYRICS OR POETRY WRITTEN BY YOURSELF OR FRIENDS)
Create a Biography granting insight into their life, poetic style, and period/ (genre). THIS WILL BE
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, AS IT ESTABLISHES BACKGROUND FOR YOUR ANALYSIS, IN SOME CASES.
Biography must be at least half page double-spaced with citation and a picture. See back of page for
time periods.
2. Choose one work from each poet that you feel is a strong model of their style/genre.
Focus on a theme love, betrayal, injustice, etc)
3.
4. Prepare a 1-page analysis (with clear thesis) of each poem, which clearly indicates theme (writers purpose),
and how all stylistic devices contribute to its development. For example, Shelleys Ozymandias, reflects the
Romantic Periods concept of the superiority of and the power of the imagination and is established through
the use of imagery, diction and figurative language. Be sure to discuss how each device contributes dont
just mention them. This analysis should be one page double-spaced in length with citations.
PNTS
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15
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25
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TOTAL
260
DATES & PERIODS ARE APPROXIMATE (INCLUDES EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN) YOU WILL NEED TO DO
FURTHER RESEARCH
Time Span, Terms, Movements, Examples
600-1200 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
Beowulf
Geoffrey Chaucer
Humanist Era
Thomas More
John Skelton
High Renaissance
Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare
John Donne
George Herbert
Emilia Lanyer
1600- Puritans
1700
Devotional Poets
John Milton
Andrew Marvell
Alexander Pope
Samuel Johnson
Jonathan Swift,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1785- Romanticism
1830
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Robert Browning
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
G.M. Hopkins
H.G. Wells
James Joyce
D.H. Lawrence
T.S. Eliot
Any of the Harlem Renaissance Poets
Thomas Hobbes
Stephen Crane
Gwendolyn Brooks
LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka)
Sylvia Plath
Name:
Requirements
25-24
SCORE:
EC:
TOTAL
15-11
/260
10-0
Poems
Annotation
No afterword
No table of contents
Poets
Analysis
Foreword
Afterword
Table of
Contents
MLA format
Design /
Appearance
Conventions
1 1 page
Accurately describes a couple of
dominant elements and devices used by
most poets / accurately relates how these
are used to reinforce the themes,
meaning, mood, or feeling of the poems.
Forms a somewhat reasonable
hypothesis about symbolic / metaphorical
meaning / is able to support this with
evidence from the works.
Adequately identifies and expresses the
poets message
Background/Contextual evidence is
adequately expressed, and relates to the
understanding of the poems messages