Explication Paper on Poetry

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    Explication Paper on Poetry

    The course I am taking this semester is English literature and poetry .My husband and I have the same assignment to do. I need one work for me and one for my husband. Please all I could pay is $40.00 for each assignment. Can you help? I need a specialist in English literature. Due date is for Feb.8, 2013.
    The professor mention about an introduction paragraph for an example in #1 .Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73, What is the poem about, it has 14 quatrains define Sonnet, In the first quatrain tells…second and etc.. last paragraph should have a conclusion
    1. Explication Paper on Poetry
    Compose a 4-5 page (typed, double-spaced) response to one of the following questions. Your response should show evidence of your abilities as a close, analytical reader of poetry.

    1. Analyze the relationship between love and time in one of the following poems: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73, Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” or Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress.”

    2. Analyze the relationship between form and content in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.”

    3. Compare and contrast the relationship between love and time in Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” and Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress.”

    4. Analyze the relationship between form and content in one of the following Dickinson poems through a close reading of the poem “Four Trees – upon a solitary Acre.” Be sure to take the manuscript into account when analyzing this poem.

    5. Explore the sexual/gender politics of Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” through a close reading of the poem’s imagery.

    6. Explore the tenets of Imagism through a close reading of Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” or “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter.”

    7. Explore the tenets of Imagism through a close reading of William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” or “Spring and All” or “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime.”

    8. Analyze the relationship between violence and beauty — or art and destruction — in W. B. Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan.”

    9. Analyze the vexed relationship between form and content in Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” or Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night.”
    Detailed Description of an Explication Paper
    What is an explication of a poem? It is an explanation or interpretation or analysis. It discusses the poem’s context (from what century? What movement? Etc.). It also concerns the poem’s form (Sonnet? Quatrains? Iambic tetrameter? Free Verse?). If rhyme is used, it mentions this fact (abab? abbacc?). It analyzes important images, figures of speech or other techniques (metaphor? simile? alliteration?) which contribute to the overall effect of the poem. It says something about the poem’s tone and theme (serious or humorous? subject and message or “meaning”?).

    An explication is NOT a personal statement of how the poem makes you feel, unless that statement is supported by analysis of specific lines in the poem. Your personal reaction must be based on an accurate analysis of what the poem actually says, not on your background or the mood you happen to be in when you read it.

    The following are questions you can ask about any poem you encounter. Remember, however, that not all of the questions will apply to every poem you read, and also that you do not have to answer every question in your explication.

    1. Who is the speaker? Is it the poet or a character/persona the poet takes on? What is the tone of voice adopted? (Note: You should refer to the speaker as “the speaker” and not as “the poet,” even if the voice seems to be the poet’s own.)
    2. Who is the speaker’s audience/addresee?
    3. What is the poem’s theme?
    4. What is the poem’s structure? Are there shifts or turns in its development? How are the shifts indicated? Why does a shift take place?
    5. How else is the poem organized? How does its organization contribute to the development of the poem’s subject or theme?
    6. Is the poem composed in meter? If so, how does the meter contribute to the development of the poem’s subject or theme? Are there any strategic points where the poem breaks with its rhyme scheme? Why? Is the poem composed in free verse? If so, how does the poet structure the poem?
    7. What is the poem’s rhyme scheme? How does it contribute to the development of the poem’s subject or theme? Is there any evidence of internal rhymes, slant rhymes, etc?
    8. Do the lines end with a completion of a thought or closed punctuation (i.e., are they end-stopped)? Or do the lines flow without pause, from one to the next (i.e., are they enjambed)? If enjambed, does it occur from one couplet to the next, one quatrain to the next, etc?
    9. How would you characterize the poem’s language or diction ? What effect does this choice of language have on your response to the poem and its speaker?
    10. What imagery is developed in the poem? Does the poet use metaphor, simile, personification, etc? Does he/she use symbolism? Considering the poem’s subject matter, are these images obvious ones, or are they unusual and unexpected? Do they contribute to the poem’s subject or theme? If so, how?
    11. Is there any evidence of repetition, alliteration, onomatopoeia, or other sound effects in the poem? What do they contribute?
    12. Is there any significance to the placement of words in the poem? Is the rhythm of any particular words or lines noteworthy?
    13. Is there any significance to the poem’s punctuation or the capitalization and spelling of words? Is there any significance to the poem’s typography?

     

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