Assignment- Write a poem

You are to write a poem and submit it to turnitin.com by Thursday, May 10th at 10 PM. Be prepared to present it to the class.

You will be graded on the following-

Whether or not you avoid cliches

Whether or not you use poetic language

Whether or not you have a theme that the poem sticks to

Poetry Homework

Select a poet from the following list, then select a poem he or she wrote. Print out that poem and write a 125 word response explaining what you think it means. Be prepared to present it to the class! If you want to select a different poet, e-mail me by Saturday night for approval. This is due May 7th for Freshmen, and May 9th for Seniors. If you use a poem that no one else in the class uses, you get extra credit!

Anne Sexton
Dylan Thomas
William Wordsworth
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sylvia Plath
William Shakespeare
John Donne
Andrew Marvell
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
Maya Angelou
Elizabeth Bishop
William Carlos Williams
Charles Bukowski
Emily Dickinson
Pablo Neruda
Allen Ginsberg
T.S. Eliot
Marianne Moore
Wallace Stevens