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Choose one of the poems from your readings in Chapter 33: “Poetry for Further Reading” and compose a written explication of that poem. The poem you select must be sophisticated enough to sustain a detailed analysis. You may choose a poem by the same poet you discussed in the Module 5 Discussion Board who comes from a different culture than your own.
- Your explication should be 3-4 pages.
- It should analyze one or more of the poem's elements (see readings from chapters 27 and 28 for specific elements).
- Your explication is not a summary of what the poem is about. Nor are you expected to unravel the poem’s “meaning.” Rather, you are explaining how the poet used a particular poetic element, and you are analyzing how that element affects the rest of the poem.
When writing your explication:
- Choose a poem that is sophisticated enough to sustain a detailed analysis.
- Include a thesis statement that states the element you are analyzing and why.
- Follow a systematic writing pattern by analyzing the element on which you are focusing line by line or stanza by stanza.
- Provide textual examples (words, phrases, and lines) from the poem to illustrate your analytical statements. Cite your sources using correct APA formatting found in CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements. See the tutorial in Module 1 for an explanation on how to do this.
- The UNC Writing Center and The Purdue OWL provide detailed examples of poetry explication.
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Running Head: EXPLICATION ESSAY
Explication Essay
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EXPLICATION ESSAY
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
The poem “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” by T.S Eliot is in the form a satire. It is
somewhat a dramatic monolog in which the title introduces. The poem meditates more on a
failed romance with a character who is constrained by fear. The author speaks through this
character in a brave act of talking to women at an event. The choice of the name of the character
is quite suggestive with the first part “prude” meaning lack of final constant while “frock”
meaning attire that in Eliot’s generation is formal. The poem uses imagery to contribute to the
theme of loneliness and communication.
The opening of the poem paints an image of an invitation. Prufrock invites the readers to
the section of self-examination. In the first line, “Let us go then, you and I / when the evening is
spread out against the sk...
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