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Part 1: Read the selected poem (https://poets.org/poem/american-smooth) Then, answer the following questions in a paper:
– Why you chose your poem – How you understand it, using the questions from “How to Read Poetry,” which I will include.
– Discussing each poetic device
Then, summarize what one critic has said about your poem and respond to it, using particular words in the poem to explain your response. Be sure to include the source of the article. These all must be in answered in an MLA essay format. It should be a paper.
Part 2: In a separate document, choose 10 questions out of the list to answer. If you use any secondary sources, you must document the source; otherwise, it is plagiarism.
What does William Carlos Williams mean by “No ideas but in things?” How is that idea connected to “The Red Wheelbarrow?”
In James Dickey’s “The Leap,” for what is “leap” a metaphor?
In Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain,” what does Scorses’s film suggest hard rain represents? Which historical moment does he use to accompany the lyrics?
4. Paul Simon’s “April.” Youtube. How is each month of the year represented? Which figure of speech is used?
What is the form of the Shakespearean sonnet? What are the two negative definitions of love and the positive one in “Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds?” Explain the following tropes or figures of speech: “marriage of true minds,” “alters” “remove” “Time’s fool,” “bending sickle” “brief hours and weeks” “edge of doom.”
Define an Italian or Petrachan Sonnet. How does Billy Collins use the stations of the cross to make fun of the Elizabethan sonnet? How does he use the story of Laura and Petrarch?
Define a Villanelle. What does Dylan Thomas mean by “Do not go gentle into that good night?” What does he say about the “wise men,” “good men,” “Wild men,” and “Grave men?” Discuss the metaphors in each.
In Sharon Olds’ “Sex Without Love,” what is the speaker’s attitude towards those who have “sex without love?” Point to specific words that convey the tone.
What is the tone of “My Papa’s Waltz, and which words convey it?
What does “metaphysics” mean? In a sentence, define Metaphysical poetry. In Donne’s metaphysical poem, “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” define “valediction.” What is the speaker urging his beloved to do? How does the metaphor of the compass work?
Look up Romanticism as a literary movement and write down its definition in your own words.
Read “Ozymandias” by Shelley. Who is Ozymandias? What does the speaker mean when he says, “Nothing beside remains: round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,/The lone and level sands stretch far away?” What does the poem say about power? How is the poem an example of Romanticism, or not?
May 2 Why are Blake’s “Lamb” and “Tyger” companion poems?
How do you understand Wordsworth’s:–“The World Is Too Much With Us”
“The World Is Too Much with Us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;”
14. Keat’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”–required–All questions below are part of 14.
a. What is an “Ode?”
b. Explain the poetic device and your understanding of: “Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:”
c. How do you understand:
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thous kiss,
Thou winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, thou thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!”
d. How might Carly Simon’s “Anticipation” (Google YouTube Carly Simon “Anticipation”) address the idea behind the images on the urn? e. How might Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young” (listen on You-tube) allude to Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn?”
f. Keats defines “Negative Capability” as “the willingness to embrace uncertainty, live with mystery, and make peace with ambiguity.” Is it connected to “Grecian Urn?” How does it relate to your present situation? g. How do you understand “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,–that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” (1819, Keats)
h. How is this ode an example –or not—of Romanticism?
15. Required **Define Modernism, (see your packet), briefly explaining why Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an example. How do the literary allusions function? How do you understand the poem? You will need to look up what readers have said about the poem, if you do not attend our extra class. Please document your source.
16. How do you understand Dickinson’s poem,“faith is a fine invention/For Gentlemen who see?”
What is Hopkins celebrating in “Pied Beauty?” Define “pied” and “dappled.” How do assonance and alliteration work?
Look up Seamus Heaney’s Obituary, The New York Times, Aug. 30, 2013. Write down one significant fact about his poetry.
How does Heaney’s “Digging” compare a poet with a potato farmer?
Point to the figures of speech in Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son.”
How do you understand Adrienne Rich’s: “Aunt Jennifer’s Tygers”
“When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.”

Please only write for Topic #1: 
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) concerns the Romantic themes of
creation, invention, and animation. Shelley’s gothic novel utilizes overlapping levels of
narration evident in the three narrators: Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the
Creature. Please refer to attached document to see what needs to be considered in essay. 
– 14 point font and double spaced
– 3-4 pages 
– no sources, just quote from book when needed
-In 3-4 pages consider the following: 1.    
In 3-4 pages, you will need to consider the following:
·       What is the
significance of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s title Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus? How can Frankenstein be
likened to a Byronic hero? In other words, what is his quest? To what extent
does Frankenstein fulfill his quest?
·       Mary Shelley
Wollstonecraft includes this epigraph from Paradise
Lost beneath the title: “Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould
me
man? Did I
solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?” What do these lines mean? In other
words, what sort of analogy can be drawn here between Adam and God in
comparison to the Creature and Frankenstein in this context? How does the
Creature identify himself with Adam in terms of his request? How does
Frankenstein identify himself with the “Maker”?
·       After
Frankenstein’s death, the Creature admits: “But I was the slave, not the master
of an impulse, which I detested, yet could not disobey” (Shelley, Norton, 1032). How would you
characterize his “impulse”? Do you agree or disagree that the Creature was a
“slave” to the “impulse” that he “detested” and “could not disobey”? Why? Or
why not? Conclusions?