This essay focuses on Imagery and the Language of Poetry.Choose a poem from the assigned readings listed below, and identify some of the key imagery or other kinds of poetic language used in the poem, which you believe are vital to understanding it.

 Imagery and the Language of Poetry

Choose a poem from the assigned readings listed below, and identify some of the key imagery or other kinds of poetic language use in the poem, which you believe are vital to understanding it. Here are some possible approaches: Provide a details discussion of how the images function in the poem. Do the images work together to form a coherent pattern? What ideas or feelings are conveyed by the images or figurative language? How do the images contribute to the overall meaning of the poem?  Our course eBook (Portable Literature) should be your only source.

Do not use outside sources.

Title your discussion response with the poem’s title. This will help other students see which poems have been discuss. Once a poem has been discuss twice, please do not choose it for analysis. Read the following poems and choose one to discuss: Alvarez, “Dusting” Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” Browning, “How Do I Love Thee” Burns, “Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose” Cummings, “Buffalo Bill” Cummings, “

Next to of Course God America I” Cummings,

“Since Feeling is First” Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask” Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” Heaney, “Digging” Heaney, “Mid-Term Break” Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” Hopkins, “Spring and Fall” Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” Komunyakaa, “Facing It” MacLeish, “Ars Poetica” Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” McKay,

“The White City” Pastan, “Ethics” Plath, “Daddy” Pound, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” Randall, “Ballad of Birmingham” Rich, “Living in Sin” Robinson, “Miniver Cheevy” Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” Shakespeare,

“Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds” Shakespeare,

“My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” Shakespeare, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? .Tips Remember to provide evidence for your claims. The form of quoted passages from the poem. Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries should be cite according to APA rules of style, including in-text and reference citations. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of the document.

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