Choose one of the poems we have covered this semester (either from the current or a previous unit) and write a response detailing what you think it is arguing. In your analysis, be sure to consider some/all of the following: rhyme scheme and meter (or lack thereof), charged language, formality of language, line/sentence divisions, patterns/symbols, and anything else you feel helps support your reading of the poem. Also, keep in mind that there are many ways to analyze a poem, so if you choose to research the history of the period/author, that may limit your ability to see beyond that particular perspective. No outside sources aloud. The paper must be three pages long. Poem: From the Dark Tower We shall not always plant while others reap The golden increment of bursting fruit, Not always countenance, abject and mute, That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; Not everlastingly while others sleep Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, Not always bend to some more subtle brute; We were not made to eternally weep. The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars is no less lovely being dark, And there are buds that cannot bloom at all In light, but crumple, piteous, and fall; So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.