How does the poem youve chosen deal with the problem of loss? What kind or kinds of loss are being described? What tone does the poet take toward the subject? Does the poem itself offer any strategies, explicit or implicit, for dealing with the human fact of loss? If so, what are these strategies? If not, in your opinion, why not? Does the poem have a particular form and/or is it an example of a particular genre or genres? How does the poets specific diction (vocabulary) and methods of formal arrangement (ways of structuring the poem) help convey the emotional resonance of the subject matter?

2 SMALL WRITING ACTIVITES. for both activities the word limit is 350-700 words

ACTIVITY#1: Choose one (1) of the following poems: Suggested word count: 350-700 words

Elizabeth Bishops One Art

Elizabeth Bishops Sestina

Yusef Komunyakaas Facing It

John Miltons When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

Sylvia Plaths Morning Song

How does the poem youve chosen deal with the problem of loss? What kind or kinds of loss are being described? What tone does the poet take toward the subject? Does the poem itself offer any strategies, explicit or implicit, for dealing with the human fact of loss? If so, what are these strategies? If not, in your opinion, why not? Does the poem have a particular form and/or is it an example of a particular genre or genres? How does the poets specific diction (vocabulary) and methods of formal arrangement (ways of structuring the poem) help convey the emotional resonance of the subject matter?

ACTIVITY#2: Suggested word count: 350- 700 words

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Choose two (2) of the texts we studied during our discussion of Oral Traditions, Written Words on May 12. What do these two texts youve chosen have in common, in terms of character, plot, form, etcetera? How are they differenthistorically, stylistically, or otherwise? Although we obviously read these texts, these texts also have a basis in orality and the spoken word. What vestiges of that fact can you see in the texts as we have them today?

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