Please write a 3-page essay (with MLA in-text citations and Works Cited page) in which you fully explicate one of the assigned poems (except for “One Art,” which I covered in the lecture) we read and discussed this week. The colonel would be the poem

October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 Discipline: English
  • The colonel poem
  • Please write a 3-page essay (with MLA in-text citations and Works Cited page) in which you fully explicate one of the assigned poems (except for “One Art,” which I covered in the lecture) we read and discussed this week. 

  • Climb the Ladder of Abstraction

    1. Understand the literal/surface information of the poem: who, what, where, when.
    2. Identify and explore: Setting, Character, Conflict, and Narrator/Speaker/Poet.
    3. Focus on the key details/devices: form, rhetoric, syntax, diction, symbol, connotation. 
    4. Look for patterns: repeated formats, rhyme, patterns of sound, visual patterns, meter.
    5. “So what?!” Analyze for effect: How do these elements create meaning or convey the concerns/themes of the poem?
    6. Interpret: Make a claim about the larger significance/themes/meaning of the poem

    Poetry Explication Rubric

      A

      • Clear introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. 
      • Clearly addresses #1 and 2. 
      • Makes clear, specific, responsible claims about #3, 4, and 5, in a way that addresses numerous and specific formal, sound and poetic devices. 
      • Follows all claims with analysis of appropriate effect/function. 
      • Achieves #6, an analysis of the broader meaning of the poem with specific attention to the poems theme and concerns.


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