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Poetry Analysis
Read, annotate, and write in response to the attached three poems. What is a common topic of the three poems? Do the
speakers feel the same about the topic or differently? How does each poet develop the topic? Use and cite textual
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet
43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love After Love by Derek Walcott
The time will come
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
when, with elation
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
you will greet yourself arriving
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
at your own door, in your own mirror
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
and say, sit here. Eat.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
I love thee with the passion put to use
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
all your life, whom you ignored
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
for another, who knows you by heart.
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
I shall but love thee better after death.
the photographs, the desperate notes,
Paper Boat by Gary Soto
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
You folded a piece of paper
Into a boat and set it on the pond.
We stepped back, hand in hand,
And watched your creation drift.
Then they arrived, two ducks
That began to peck at your little ship.
I covered my mouth with my hand,
Stomped my foot, and scolded, “Go away!”
The duck with the cruel eyes lifted
Your paper boat into its bill—
Three pecks made it sink, just another
Piece of litter at the pond’s edge,
We were young, not yet fourteen.
What chance could our love have
In a world so rough?