Essay 2: Poetry Essay 2: Poetry Due Dates *Post your rough draft to peer review to Turnitin.com by midnight Wed. 10/10 *Review 2 of your peers drafts in Turnitin.com by midnight Friday 10/12 *Final...

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Essay 2: Poetry



Essay 2: Poetry



Due Dates


*Post your rough draft to peer review to Turnitin.com by midnight Wed. 10/10


*Review 2 of your peers drafts in Turnitin.com by midnight Friday 10/12


*Final draft due submitted to turnitin.com by midnight Sunday 10/14



The Assignment:Pick one of the poems assigned for this class and write a paper on it. The paper must be a minimum of 1000 words, double-spaced with standard font (12, Times New Roman) and margins. Rather than do a line-by-line explication of the poem, I'd like you to approach this essay much like the last one: your paper should consist of analysis, examining some focus or assertion about the poem, exploring that assertion through a few different aspects or literary elements. See sample thesis statements for Essay 1. As with the previous paper, do not consult any outside sources on the poem, nor include any biographical information on the author.


Your paper must contain a thesis statement at the end of the introductory paragraph that contains an assertion; it should forecast the topics of body paragraphs.


You must include direct evidence from the poem in the form of direct quotation, quoting at least once per body paragraph. Quotations must be cited using correct MLA format for in-text citations. When pulling lines from the poem to quote in your paper, follow MLA procedures regarding parenthetical citations for poems, particularly including the line number in parentheses not the page number (more on that to come).


Remember that there is a difference between the narrator and the author.


Refer to the poem with present tense verbs


The title of your paper should be creative and hint at the focus of your paper.


Your essay must not include any biographical information on the author.


Essay will receive 5% extra credit if it’s tutored on campus


A Works Cited page is required.



Due Dates


*Post your rough draft to peer review to Turnitin.com by midnight Wed. 10/10


*Review 2 of your peers drafts in Turnitin.com by midnight Friday 10/12


*Final draft due submitted to turnitin.com 10/08



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Answer To: Essay 2: Poetry Essay 2: Poetry Due Dates *Post your rough draft to peer review to Turnitin.com by...

Azra S answered on Sep 30 2020
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Finding Harmony with Nature
The poem, ‘The world is too much with us’ is centred on the theme of ‘oneness with nature’. In this poem Wordsworth is trying to bring notice to humankind that everything in nature runs in harmony, except mankind. This lack of harmony has brought us great loss. The poet grieves at this loss and believes that only through regaining this harmony can human beings be happy again.
The poem follows the typical structure of - surfacing of an idea, an observation and a conclusion. All three are based on Nature. The first part observes the human nature that is disconnected from the Nature around us, the second part observes the Nature around us and admires it and the third part, observes the poet as a part of this grand Nature.
The entire poem is a kind of lament and regret expressed by the poet in various ways. The title and the opening lines itself demonstrate these using words of exaggeration, “too much”. What the poet means with too much could be ‘the plenty we have’ or it may be ‘the plenty in Nature that we ignore’. “The world is too much with us; late and soon” (1)
The reflection of the poet seems to be made while standing before the sea. He is impressed with the way everything is running in harmony. We can glimpse the poets love for nature through his observations. He uses similes and metaphors to point this out. He compares the wind to flowers and the expanse of sea to a bared bosom. “This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; / The winds that will be howling at all hours,” (5-6)
In spite of this harmony, the poet finds himself and mankind disconnected from Nature. He thinks that...
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