The Poetry Analysis Essay demonstrates your ability to (1) follow the essential details of the poem.

I have chosen to analyze “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas

Poetry Analysis Assignment

If you use sources to research the poem I have chosen please use, United States, sources from well-known scholarly websites like nytimes.com.

I. Introduction
For this essay, you will analyze a poem. In other words, you will break it into parts to show how each part helps you understand the poem as a whole. You wont need to explain the poem exhaustively (or beat it to death), but your essay should focus on specific details (imagery, diction, figurative language, tone, etc.) which contribute significantly to your understanding of the poem.

II. Steps
1.Selection: Choose a poem from the packet / list provided in class.
2.Analysis / Prewriting: Answer all the questions on the Attacking a Poem handout.
3.Thesis: Write a thesis statement which will guide you as you write your essay.
4.Research: Find a) information about your author online, b) at least two other poems by the author, and c) one other literary analysis of the poem from a database.
5.Writing: Write the essay, citing the poem and your supplemental sources in the paper.
6.Documentation: Include a properly formatted works cited page.

Guidelines
The Poetry Analysis Essay demonstrates your ability to (1) follow the essential details of the poem, (2) understand the issues and the meaning the poem reveals, (3) explain some of the relationships of content and technique, and (4) note and discuss especially important or unique aspects of the poem.

1.Introduction: In your introduction, use your thesis or central idea to express a general view of the poem, which your essay will fill out with specific details.
2.Transition: In the body of your essay, first explain the poem’s contentnot with a paraphrase, but with a description of the poem’s major organizing elements.
3.Body: Next, analyze the poem in relation to your central idea.
4.Conclusion: In your conclusion, you should repeat your main idea to reinforce your essay’s thematic structure.

III. Format

1.Your essay must follow this format: typed, double spaced, 12 point font (preferably TNR), 1 inch margins, 8.5×11 white paper with blank ink, stapled.
2.Your essay must also be at least 4 pages in length (1000 words).
3.You should include quotations from your poem in your analysis. Make sure you follow MLA guidelines when quoting poetry.
4.You should also support your argument with evidence found in your research.
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Analyzing a Poem Questions

Directions: Answer as many of these questions as you can about the poem you are reading.

I. Speaker, Subject, and Setting
1.Who is the speaker? What kind of person is he / she?
2.Who is the speaker addressing? What kind of person is he / she?
3.What is the occasion (what just happened?)?
4.What is the setting in time (hour, season, century, etc.)?
5.What is the setting in place (indoors or out, city or country, land or sea, region, country, etc.)?

II. Meaning
6.What is the central purpose of the poem?
7.State the theme of the poem in one sentence.
8.Summarize the events of the poem.
9.Paraphrase the poem.

III. Methods
10.Discuss the tone of the poem: How is it achieved?
11.Describe the diction of the poem. Point out words that are well chosen and explain why.
12.Discuss the imagery of the poem. What kinds of imagery are used?
13.Point out examples of metaphor, simile, personification, and other figurative language.
14.Point out and explain any symbols or allegory.
15.Point out and explain examples of paradox, oxymoron, overstatement, understatement, and / or irony. What is their function?
16.Point out and explain any allusions. What is their function?

IV. Sound and Sense
17.Outline the poem so as to show its structure and development.
18.Point out significant examples of sound repetition and explain their function.
19.Describe the form or pattern of the poem?
20.Discuss the adaptation of sound to sense.

V. Evaluation
21.Criticize and evaluate the poem.
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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