Library Research Project

We will be in the library during class time on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week.

Mr. Broomhead

English 12AP

tbroomhead@acsdny.org

http://english12apmrbroomhead.blogspot.com/

Poetry Paper

For this assignment, you will explicate a poem by one of the poets listed below.  You will use published literary criticism to enhance your explication, so be sure to choose a “canonical” poem. 

Your explication will be a 6-8 page, typed, double-spaced research paper.  You must use at least five cited sources; they may be articles from books, journals, or databases.  Sparknotes, Wikipedia articles, Cliff’s Notes, and the like are not acceptable.  There are some useful internet resources; I have links to some of them on my webpage.

·         Please provide a copy of the poem with your paper.

·         Please print a copy of your paper.  Electronic copies will not be accepted. 

·         Your paper must meet MLA guidelines.

The Poets:

A.R. Ammons; Matthew Arnold; Margaret Atwood; John Ashbery; W.H. Auden; Aphra Behn; John Berryman; Elizabeth Bishop; William Blake; Anne Bradstreet; Gwendolyn Brooks; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Billy Collins; Hart Crane; Robert Creeley; e.e. cummings; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle); James Dickey; Emily Dickinson; John Donne; John Dryden; Paul Laurence Dunbar; T.S. Eliot; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Robert Frost (NOT “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” or “The Road Not Taken”); Allen Ginsberg; Thomas Hardy; Seamus Heaney; George Herbert; Robert Herrick; Geoffrey Hill; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Langston Hughes; Ben Jonson; James Joyce; John Keats; Kenneth Koch; Philip Larkin; D.H. Lawrence; Denise Levertov; Amy Lowell; Robert Lowell; Andrew Marvell; Herman Melville; Edna St. Vincent Millay; John Milton; Marianne Moore; Frank O’Hara; Sylvia Plath; Edgar Allen Poe (NOT “The Raven”); Alexander Pope; Ezra Pound; Adrienne Rich; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Theodore Roethke; Christina Rossetti; Muriel Rukeyser; Anne Sexton; William Shakespeare; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Sir Philip Sidney; Stevie Smith; Gary Snyder; Edmund Spenser; William Stafford; Wallace Stevens; May Swenson; Sarah Teasdale; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Dylan Thomas; Robert  Penn Warren; Phillis Wheatley; Walt Whitman; Richard Wilbur; William Carlos Williams; William Wordsworth; James Wright; William Butler Yeats

·         Rough drafts are due: 17 February

·         Final drafts are due: 2 March

Please do not plagiarize.