UI Symbols and Review Discussion – Description
1. Write a paragraph explaining the poem’s symbolism. Begin the paragraph with the title of the poem and the name of the poet. Be sure to quote the lines referring to the symbol. Also explain what you think the symbol means, and what makes you think that. What evidence from the poem causes you to interpret the symbol that way? Use the following poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock
2. Choose any poem from the Poetry Foundation collection “Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment.” Read the poem aloud several times, or listen to it several times if audio is available. Then write a 300-word analysis of the poem: Name the poem and poet in your first sentence. Next give your overall sense of the poem, in sentence or two: what is about? What is it like? You may want to answer one or more of the questions in “Talking Back to a Poem” from the Hirsch essay in Lesson 1. Finally, analyze the poem in depth, applying all the relevant vocabulary terms you have learned thus far, in bold. If there are no figures of speech, or no symbols, or the lineation isn’t notable, that’s fine. Just try to provide as thorough explanation of the poem as you can by using the concepts that are most relevant. (This will serve as a midterm review and prepare you for what you will be doing on the final exam.)
3. Add a question or two that you want your classmates to address. The question(s) can be about anything from this lesson–either of the poems in your Reflection, “Mending Wall,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” symbolism, or course concepts/vocabulary.
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