Poetry Analysis Essay Paper

Poetry Analysis Essay

DescriptionTopic – Choose (3) poems we have read in the past few weeks and write an essay which includes your analysis of each poem. To do this, you must find connections/similarities which allow you to link the poems together with a thesis that describes the connection you want to focus on between the poems. To help you envision and plan your essay, please refer to the poetry analysis template in Module 2. Ultimately, this essay will be three pages in length.

Requirement
Please use the student sample paper, Poetry Analysis Template, and the “Outline Template for Literary Analysis Essay” as a guide to help you write this essay.
• Use the “A Society that is Slipping” doc to see a student’s sample paper.
“The following template specializes on writing about poetry and can serve as a general outline for your essay. You will have to decide what your essay should include or not include. Just be sure your explication is thorough and organized.”
• Use the “poetry analysis template” and “Outline Template for Literary Analysis Essay” file.

– It is in MLA style format.

Here are the 3 poems that I’ve chosen. You can read these poems online but when you use direct quotations, please refer to the pictures I send in the files. Those pictures are the textbook pages of these poems and the authors.
• Marge Piercy, “Barbie Doll”
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed”
• Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”