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How does Maya Angelou’s inauguration poem reflect upon the identity of “hyphenated Americans” by the early 1990s? In reading Document 11, how does President-Elect Barack Obama define Americanism? Looking back over documents 1-13, did his election, as the first person of color to become President of the United States, resolve the questions and crises surrounding the definition of an American citizen? In a post-9/11 world, has America progressed in its inclusiveness? Why or why not?
Choose one passage of 10 to 15 lines of poetry from either Passus 5, or 6, or 7 and analyze closely how we might relate the language of that one passage to one of the problems this poem explores, such as:
How may I save my soul?
Why doesn’t everyone do what they are supposed to do? How can we get them to do so, and make the world better?
What is the way to Saint Truth? Who might guide us?
As a project, write at least 10 poems or more. Your poems should include different poetic devices, figurative language, imagery and sensory details.
Include illustrations for each poem. You can submit your Poetry on Pages or as a Keynotes or Prezi Presentation.
Read the poem at the following link:
Link https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30568/30568-h/30568-h.htm#VII_2 (White Man’s Burden By Rudyard Kipling)
After reading the poem, address the following in a case study analysis:
Select a specific part of the world (a country), and examine imperialism in that country. What was the relationship between the invading country and the native people?
France & Africa
Apply social Darwinism to this specific case.
Analyze the motivations of the invading country?
How did ethnocentrism manifest in their interactions?
How does Kipling’s poem apply to your specific example? You can quote lines for comparison.
Argue whether or not Hughes’ poems are propaganda in Du Bois’ view.
Read https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem and http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/protest/text11/hugheslandlord.pdf
by Langston Hughes, and “Loveliest of Trees (Links to an external site.)” by A. E. Houseman. How would you categorize each poem (lyric, narrative, epic, or dramatic)? Explain your response by using examples from the poems.
Find and analyze two poems about school shootings in the U.S.
Include little background on the poets and then analyze (in direct quotes/literary anaylsis techniques)
what kind of language did the poets use to show this is why these poems are so powerful. Each quote should show/demonstrate a technique they use, how they are doing it, what techniques do they use (tone, metaphor, etc)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57812/quincenanera.
For this essay, submit an MLA-formatted Word document (do not copy and paste). You will submit your assignment below.
In 5 full pages of text. This means your essay should hit (or come reasonably close) the last line on page 5.
Your first paragraph should include (a) the name of the poem and poet, (b) a one or two sentence summary of the poem and (c) your thesis statement or main point about the poem.
Your essay should be written in academic style (no first or second person, academic language, use of MLA formatting) AND include examples or quotes from the story
Discuss how Langston Hughes explores integrity (including trustworthiness,fairness,and honesty) through what his characters say and do in “Thank You Mam” Support your assertions with examples from the text.
Thank you mam poem link : http://staff.esuhsd.org/danielle/english%20department%20lvillage/rt/Short%20Stories/Thank%20You,%20Ma%27am.pdf
For this discussion, you will practice conducting a close reading of a poem for this unit.
Read the poem carefully.
Explain what you find intriguing about it. Note the elements of the poem that are most interesting to you, using the vocabulary learned in this unit: speaker, stanza, end rhyme, etc.
Include at least one quotation from the poem; be sure to deliver it with a signal phrase and to punctuate it properly.
Next, suggest which one (or more) of the four modes of poetry analysis—aural, visual, symbolic, or thematic—can be said to drive the poem and why you believe this is true.
Criteria on which you will be graded:
Demonstration of your understanding of the reading
Level of idea development
The quality of your writing, including grammar, logic, and transition
Timeliness of your post
POEM:
Interview
BY DOROTHY PARKER
The ladies men admire, I’ve heard,
Would shudder at a wicked word.
Their candle gives a single light;
They’d rather stay at home at night.
They do not keep awake till three,
Nor read erotic poetry.
They never sanction the impure,
Nor recognize an overture.
They shrink from powders and from paints …
So far, I’ve had no complaints.