1500 word Essay - comparing poetry

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  • Compare and contrast some of the poems from this week's readings or the poet you selected for part 1 of the forum. You may compare poems from a single poet, or compare poems across poets. Have a debatable, persuasive claim and focus on specific points of comparison, using the Lesson in week 7 to guide your structure.

Readings

  • John Grisham: "Somewhere for Everyone"
  • Sharon Olds: "First Thanksgiving", "Still Life in Landscape", "After Making Love in Winter", "The Planned Child"
  • Linda Pastan: "A Rainy Country", "I am Learning to Abandon the World", "The Obligation to Be Happy", "Why Are Your Poems so Dark?"
  • Larry Levis: "Signs", "To a Wren on Calvary", "Winter Stars"
  • Locate and read four poems by a Postmodern American author of your choice from the included list

Your essays should be in MLA Style and approximately 1500-2000 words, not including the Work(s) Cited page. Meeting the minimum word requirement makes you eligible for a C grade. Meeting the maximum word requirements makes you eligible for an A grade. As with most academic writing, this essay should be written in third person. Please avoid both first person (I, we, our, etc.) and second person (you, your).


In the upper left-hand corner of the paper, place your name, the professor’s name, the course name, and the due date for the assignment on consecutive lines. Double space your information from your name onward, and don't forget a title. All papers should be in Times New Roman font with 12-point type with one-inch margins all the way around your paper. All paragraph indentations should be indented five spaces (use the tab key) from the left margin. All work is to be left justified. When quoting lines in literature, please research the proper way to cite short stories, plays, or poems.


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Comparing Poetry
Every poet has his or her unique style of writing. Poets use different but captivating words to
pass their messages to their readers. Therefore, each poet finds different ways to ensure that they
familiarize the readers with the different situations faced both in real life and in imagination at a
particular time. Most times, poets use different tones or forms of imagery to make their work
more interesting and attract even more readers. Moreover, most poets also relate their work to
their own experiences to make it even more understandable to readers who have experienced the
same situation. Sometimes the poet's writing style may vary across his or her various poems also
if some of the themes are common. Sharon Olds' poetry style is one that instigates the readers'
emotional and imaginative aspects (Olds). Therefore, Olds' poems "After Making Love in
Winter" and "The Planned Child" explore similar topics and themes but "After Making Love in
Winter" focuses on life's spontaneities while "The Planned Child" is inclined towards a realistic
view of caution and arrangement.
"After Making Love in Winter" mainly talks about the spontaneity in intimacy and sex
while "The Planned Child" explains how the persona in the poem feels that his or her story could
have begun more excitingly than how the parents planned for his or her conception. In Olds'
"After Making Love in Winter," the reader realizes that the persona is a female who embraces
the sexual pleasures which she experiences with her partner. She explains "till the skin all over

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my body is ice except at those points our bodies touch like blooms of fire" (Olds). The persona in
the poem establishes the fact that there is an element of passion and intimacy in the sexual
experience with her partner and she remembers every point of the encounter. The tone of the
poem shows an urge for more sexual encounters, and although it is unclear whether the couple's
union is based on love, the reader feels the special connection. Olds' main idea is to make people
understand that sex can be a guilty pleasure for anyone and how it can t...


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