Prompt:Write an essay on ONE of the poems listed below where you analyze itslanguage and images, using your chosen school of literary criticism, inorder to interpret the poem’s overall meaning. This essay is for a generalacademic audience. Purposes:To learn to write an analysis about a poem for a general audience.● To analyze a poem using literary terminology.● To find and understand information about your chosen literarytheory.● To articulate the poem’s overall meaning based on the “lens” of aliterary theory.Requirements:750-1000 words(approx. 3-4 pages) not including the Works Cited page;MLA formatting (see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/1/ forhelp.) Remember to include your word count at the end of your essay, andalso a Works Cited page that cites your poem, plus at least one outsidesources to support/explain your chosen literary theory.Reminders:● Use your chosen literary theory (e.g., feminist, psychoanalytical, newcriticism, post structuralism, etc.) to analyze the poem to explain whatthe poem “means.”● Use examples from the text to convincingly support the claims you'remaking.● When quoting extensively, take time to explain the specific parts in thequote that prove your point.● Avoid simply offering a summary or restating of each separate lie, butanalyze and discuss the words/lines with a purpose.● Use the present tense when describing or discussing events in thepoem. In writing about literature, the convention is to always use thepresent tense throughout. The idea is that the poet is currentlycommunicating thoughts to you in the present time.● Ensure you have correctly spelled all names and titles. Put the name ofthe poem in double-quotation marks. When referring to the poet, writeout his/her full name (and later references can be last name only).● Don’t confuse the poet with the speaker of the poem - they are different.● Remember to put quotation marks at the beginning and end of eachquoted part. Review the online lectures on Canvas, especially the oneabout MLA conventions of writing about poems (week 10).

For the women in class: Compare your experiences in middle school with the findings in the article "On Becoming Female". How were your experiences similar to what Elder reports? How were they different? For the men in class: Compare your learning of gender with points made in the article "On Becoming Male". 2. According to Tannen what are the main differences between men and women in conversations. How do your personal experiences compare with the article?