Length: 3 pages, typed, minimum. For this assignment, you are required to write an analysis of one of the poems below which can be found in your textbook: Digging…….Seamus Heaney, (p 589) Wild...

Length: 3 pages, typed, minimum.

For this assignment, you are required to write an analysis of one of the poems below which can be found in your textbook:

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  Digging…….Seamus Heaney, (p 589)

  
  


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  Wild Geese…….Mary Oliver, (p 535)

  
  


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  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47555/digging
  
  

  
  


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  http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_wildgeese.html

  
  

You are essentially examining the poem line by line, explaining literally, what the poem is saying , and then explaining, figuratively, what the poem’s deeper meaning is ….the theme.

In the body paragraphs of your paper, identify at least three poetic devices, such as symbolism, tone, diction, metaphor or imagery, that are important to the poem’s meaning in some way. State explicitly how your example of a poetic device helps the poet to convey the main idea or theme.

In addition, you will need at least 3 short quotes from the poem, citing the poet’s name and line of verse quoted. For instance: ( Heaney 12)

Your essay structure:

Title:

Interesting, creative

Introduction:

-attention-grabbing lead sentences; title and author;

-brief summary of what the poem is about;

-thesis statement that names 3 poetic devices from the poem and what the theme of the poem is.

Ex: “Through the use of _____, _____, and _____, Heaney conveys the idea that (theme).”

Body Paragraphs:

Use quotes and examples from the poem to prove the connection between the poetic device and the theme of the poem.

**For all body paragraphs, use topic sentences with transitional phrases.