poetry essay assignment

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For your first poetry essay (there are two), you will choose any poem from our book written between 1865 to 1900 and analyze it with all the terms.  Please be sure to use only the terms on this list, and do not go online for outside help.  The terms you must include are conflict (man vs. man, man vs. machine, man vs. self and/or man vs. nature), type of diction with an example of it (old fashioned and formal or not, etc.), setting–describe it if you can, characters–what you observe about them if there are any, symbolism, whether it was literal or figurative and why you think so, how many stanzas, if it’s in first or third person, whether or not it was a sonnet, the rhyme scheme for the first six lines only (if it doesn’t rhyme, you still have to figure out what that rhyme scheme is), whether it’s from the traditional or transitional period, any imagery, and the theme.  Piece of cake!  Seriously, it’s not that bad.