How do you see similar features used to create a poem’s meaning in one of these later English poems: Wyatt, “My Lute Awake”; A.E. Housman, “To an Athlete Dying Young”; W.H. Auden, “Lullaby”; Elizabeth Bishop, “Filling Station”; Lucille Clifton, “move”; Philip Larkin, “Aubade”; Judith Wright, “Australia 1970.”
Prompt: “The Cuckoo Song” and “Western Wind” are two early examples of poetry composed in English. Choose one of those poems and analyze its use of literary features, word choice, rhyme, and structure and how these contribute to the poem’s meaning. How do you see similar features used to create a poem’s meaning in one […]