ASSIGNMENT:
Explain in detail, how the different poetic elements serve to create the meaning or theme A poetry explication provides a sense of how a particular poem means by analyzing the interplay of its elements. The reader of the poem/writer of the explication begins to image how the poem’s design formed in the mind of the poet, and thus arrives at a deeper appreciation of the poem’s complexity, intricacy, and unity.
Analyze the poem and discuss how the elements of poetry (structure, form, rhyme/lack of rhyme, sound devices, imagery, figurative language, symbolism, etc.) contribute to or convey the theme/message of the poem. Each body paragraph should focus on a different element of poetry (figurative language, sound devices, tone, etc.) present in the poem, and you should give cited examples from the poem (cited parenthetically). Your purpose will be to convince your audience that your analysis of the selected poem is correct.
