Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson poetry analysis paper
From the two poems you used for the poetry analysis, you will then take your
analysis and write a 2 page in-depth analysis for ONE of your poems. Please utilize
the Wiki as it will give you some really good tips on HOW to write a poetry analysis.
This should take you 4-5 days
Purpose: The purpose of the poetry analysis paper is to take your knowledge of the
poems one step further to find a deeper meaning. Poets do specific things to give
deeper meanings to his or her work. You will take your knowledge of the different
poetic elements and create a paper based on your analysis.
Steps:
1. Choose ONE of your poems that has a completed literary element
analysis.
2. Go to the Wiki and read several of the links and view the PowerPoint on
how to do a poetry analysis paper.
3. After you are familiar with how to write an analysis of poetry GET
ORGANIZED! Print off the Poetry analysis PDF and fill it out! You will
attach this to your paper when you turn it in!
4. Create a thesis statement and an outline for this paper…show Ms.
Tombre so she knows you are doing it correctly!
5. From your outline start writing
Check-list
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Choose a poem that you have already found the different literary
elements for.
Make sure you have printed off the PDF about poetry analysis, fill it
ALL out and then read the other web sites on how to do an analysis.
Use your PDF to start writing!
Write a thesis statement and create an outline and get them
approved by Ms. Tombre BEFORE you start writing.
Make sure you have a works cited page and your paper is in MLA
format. You will need to cite the source of where you got the poem
(either the Internet or your Anthology) and you will need to add any
sources that you got from the Internet.
Print out the PAPER CHECKLIST from the Wiki.
Give Ms. Tombre an electronic version of your paper.
Use the grammarly print out to help you fix any issues you might have
with your paper.
Revise and turn in: you will need your check-list and your grammarly
print out when you turn in your final copy.
What you will be graded on:
1. Content: (40 points)
a. You should have 2-3 examples from the readings on what is most
important for our literary past.
b. You should have 1-2 examples that you think are the least important.
c. Citations of all examples!
2. Thesis statement: (10 points) You need to have a well written thesis
statement that follows the formula that I have given you in class.
3. Two focal areas of your choice. (30 points…15 points for each focal area)
These will include grammar, mechanics, word choice etc.
a. Sentence structure (no fragments or run-on sentences)
b. Subject-verb agreement (all your subjects must agree with all your
verbs!!)
c. “Be” verbs…limit of 5 “be” verbs per page! (see me for a list!)
d. Word choice…this can include incorporation of actions words and
vocabulary words into the paper.
e. General mechanics such as commas, semi-colons, capitalization etc.
f. Sentence types…varying sentence types from simple, compound,
complex, and compound-complex.
4. MLA format: (20 points) This includes works cited page, in-text citations,
headings etc…
5. Grammarly sheet, analysis PDF, and a completed check-list.(10 points)