Assignment for Thursday

Reading: Chapter 3 of WW: Symbolism: The Broken Coin

Writing: Blogging Assignments (please check that page for updated requirements and group assignments)

First Responders: Please answer one of the following questions in a post:

1. Choose one of the poems in the chapter and write a post about a single symbol in the poem. What’s the most striking thing about how that symbol is used? How does the symbol relate to the larger meaning of the pome? In what ways is that symbol multivalent, ie. possessed of multiple possible meanings? What poetic devices does the poet use to create the symbol?

2. Choose a single line from one of the poems in this chapter and explain why or how it is central to the larger meaning of the poem in which it appears.

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