Instruction
Select three poems from this weeks readings, and identify imagery, metaphors, rhyme and structure.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you define imagery, metaphors, rhyme, and structure, provide examples from the readings, and discuss the importance of figurative language in poetry and how it communicates to the reader.
Here are a list of the short poems which can be found by Google.
Read the following poems from Crossroads:
W. H. Auden, `Muse des Beaux Arts` (p. 291)
Robert Browning, `My Last Duchess` (p. 292)
Lewis Carroll, `Jabberwocky` (p. 294)
Hart Crane, `My Grandmother's Love Letters` (p. 295)
Robert Frost, `The Road Not Taken` (p. 297)
R. S. Gwynn, `Shakespearean Sonnet` (p. 300)
Marilyn Nelson, `Chosen` (p. 307)
Craig Raine, `A Martian Sends a Postcard Home` (p. 308)
Edward Arlington Robinson, `Richard Cory` (p. 310)
William Shakespeare, `When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes` (p. 311)
Walt Whitman, `When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer` (p. 316)
William Carlos Williams, `The Dance` (p. 319)
William Butler Yeats, `The Stolen Child,` and `The Lake Isle of Innisfree` (p. 320)