Writing Homework Help

Gordon State College Success Is Counted Sweetest Poem Analysis

 

  • Select one of the poems from the list below
  • Having read and annotated it, focus on a specific theme in the poem and explore it in 500-600 words (5 ¶s, double-spaced, in a mature font).
  • Make sure that your thesis adheres to one of the three options from the thesis handout (link). The first part of the thesis will be specific to the poem (something explicit from the poem) and the second part will go beyond the poem itself to show something more about life, humanity, etc., while broadening our understanding of the poem itself. Therefore, this paper is to analyze the poem while relating it to life. MANDATORY ESSAY ORGANIZATION (link).
  • Italicize, bold or underline the thesis statement.
  • The first part of each of the argument paragraphs will analyze the text, and the second part will relate that analysis to life nowadays (link).
  • The introductory ¶ should have only two sentences, one of which will be the thesis statement.
  • The paper cannot earn more than 60% without the required organization and thesis.
  • No title page is necessary, but title your essay in an original manner and put your name on the paper as well in the upper left corner.
  • This is to be your own, original work, without referring to any outside sources or commentaries. However, this is not an “I” paper.
  • Use present tense.
  • Do not use “you.”
  • Please do not organize your paper based on the original organization of the poem, stanza by stanza.
  • Do not focus on the literary devices used by the author (e.g., diction, tone) but rather on the actual content.
  • Include a brief heading with your name, assignment, date and course.
  • Include the word count at the top of the paper
  • Poems:
    My Heart Leaps up When I Behold
    Jabberwocky
    Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
    My Last Duchess
    My Papa’s Waltz
    I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
    The Red Wheelbarrow
    The Chimney Sweeper
    I Like to See It Lap the Miles
    A Route to Evanescence
    My Life Had Stood – A Loaded Gun
    The Lightning Is a Yellow Fork
    A Dying Tiger – Moaned for Drink
    Success Is Counted Sweetest
    Wild Nights – Wild Nights
    I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
    I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
    The Soul Selects Her Own Society
    Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
    I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died
    I Started Early – Took My Dog
    Because I Could Not Stop for Death
    Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant
    Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
    Metaphors
    The Times They Are a-Changin’
    Break, Break, Break
    Resume
    Medusa
    Cinderella
    Ozymandias
    I, Too
    the mother
    How Do I Love Thee?
    The Flea
    The Convergence of the Twain
    Daddy
    My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun