Poem: William Carlos Williams “Poem”

Poem: William Carlos Williams “Poem”

What to Do:

The Reading Strategies Section of this module provides numerous ways that literary critics and theorists have approached poems. For this Writing Practice Assignment, you need to do the same.

Choose any of the poems in Poetry Section 1 of the Reading Assignment for this Module and write an analysis that conforms to any of the Reading Strategies covered in the Reading Strategies Section. Remember to use logic and textual evidence (quotes) to support your claims (i.e. to show how what you say is valid). Avoid using first and second person pronouns (I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours, you, your, yours, or commands) because your response should not be about yourself (first person) and it should certainly not be about your reader, me, (second person); your response should be about the poem.

You have two attempts to do these Writing Practice Assignments in Canvas. So, if you dont like your initial score, you can resubmit the assignment once for a better grade. In general, the stakes for these assignments are low. The point is to get you practicing your writing, reading, and analytical skills.

The Rubric:

An A (90-100 points) will be assigned to any Writing Practice Assignment that is
A) on topic and advances a thoughtful, insightful, interesting thesis,
B) uses at least one quote from the source material (poem) to support its thesis
C) mostly free of grammatical errors, and
D) at least 350 words

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