The poem I selected is American Sonnet for the New Year
requires:
1) ANNOTATE A POEM
2)What other poems did you enjoy as a result? 1 poem per paragraph. Prove to me you read, thought about, enjoyed, hated some other poems. Did your opinion of poetry change at all?
Consider: Who is speaking in the poem? What is, literally, denotatively happening in the poem? Go through the poem, line by line, and circle any words you do not know, or that you think might be symbolic. Do you notice anything about where the poems lines break? Do you notice anything about the punctuation of the poem? How is the poems title significant? What do you think the poem is saying symbolically? What themes do you find when you reach the poems end?