EAC239 Poetry, Pop and Hip-Hop
This essay of betweenwords is an analysis of a poem covered in the first half of the course. Attend to the poetic form, such as sonnet, ballad, free verse or prose poem, to give some examples. How does the poem’s form affect content? When explicating your chosen poem, analyze some poetic techniques as they affect meaning. For example, you might consider rhyme, meter, rhythm, alliteration (consonance and assonance), metaphor, imagery, symbol, personification, poetic voice, agency and theme. No matter which techniques are discussed, the success of your essay depends on how coherently your analysis builds a clear and well-supported interpretation of the poem. This essay is an analysis of one poem, which is your primary source and only source. No secondary sources or research is to be used in this essay. Your critical thinking, analytical and writing skills are the basis of evaluation. Poem Choices: William Blake, from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience – Project Gutenberg version: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1934/1934-h/1934-h.htm -- focus on Songs of Innocence: “Introduction,” “The Lamb,” “The Little Black Boy,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “Holy Thursday” and Songs of Experience: “Holy Thursday,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “The Tiger,” Ah, Sunflower,” “London,” “A Poison Tree” Week 2: The American Renaissance – you can search for poems and songs below (Poetry Foundation is good) Readings: Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric," “Song of Myself” parts 1-6, 10, 11, 13, 46-52 Readings: Dickinson poems 126, 303, 340, 479, 591, 764: “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed,” “The Soul Selects Her Own Society,” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,” “My Life had Stood – a Loaded Gun,” “Wild Nights,” “The Brain is wider than the Sky,” “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” Week 3: 20th-Century Poetry T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Wallace Stevens: “The Snow Man,” “Anecdote of a Jar,” Elizabeth Bishop: “The Fish,” “One Art,” Langston Hughes: “Theme for English B,” “The Weary Blues,” “Harlem,” “I, Too”
