Write a paragraph based on the CLAIM-EVIDENCE-COMMENTARY method. Follow the example paragraph on the Anne Bradstreet poem “Here Follows Some Verses on The Burning of Our House.” (You don’t need to color-code yours.)
- Use a T-A-G sentence as the first sentence of your paragraph . It will orient your reader to the poem that you will be discussing.
- The T-A-G sentence should also make a claim about the poem you will discuss.
- Support your claim with at least 3 pieces of evidence from the poem.
- Use the claim, evidence, commentary style of writing.
- Try to introduce quotes in at least TWO different ways (signal phrases, stand-alone sentences, or blended quotes. See the earlier teaching material in this module).
- Finish your paragraph with a concluding sentence that wraps up or brings the paragraph to a close.
A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment
My head, my heart, mine Eyes, my life, nay more,
My joy, my Magazine of earthly store,
If two be one, as surely thou and I,
How stayest thou there, whilst I at Ipswich lye?
So many steps, head from the heart to sever
If but a neck, soon should we be together:
I like the earth this season, mourn in black,
My Sun is gone so far in’s Zodiack,
Whom whilst I ’joy’d, nor storms, nor frosts I felt,
His warmth such frigid colds did cause to melt.
My chilled limbs now nummed lye forlorn;
Return, return sweet Sol from Capricorn;
In this dead time, alas, what can I more
Then view those fruits which through thy heat I bore?
Which sweet contentment yield me for a space,
True living Pictures of their Fathers face.
O strange effect! now thou art Southward gone,
I weary grow, the tedious day so long;
But when thou Northward to me shalt return,
I wish my Sun may never set, but burn
Within the Cancer of my glowing breast,
The welcome house of him my dearest guest.
Where ever, ever stay, and go not thence,
Till natures sad decree shall call thee hence;
Flesh of thy flesh, bone of thy bone,
I here, thou there, yet both but one.