For next Tuesday:

Below are some notes I put on the screen:

  1. For your Explication Essay (Essay 2), make sure to include a brief summary and the context for the two lines. A one-sentence summary will suffice.

For example: I will explicate the first two lines from the beginning of Willie Perdomo’s poem “Where I’m From”: “Because she liked the ‘kind of music’ that I listened to and she liked the/way I walked as well as the way I talked, she always wanted to know/where I was from.”

  1. Why did you chose these lines?
  2. Thesis and method: While X, I think Y.   For Example: In order to prove Y, I will explicate the alliteration and the similes in the two lines. Ultimately, this brief explication shows how poetic language triggers memory and emotions, making it last longer than the seasons mentioned in the poem.
  3. Explication—paragraph organization by theme!! This means that each paragraph begins with a strong topic sentence that leverages one of the poetry terms that we have learned.
  4. Conclusion: What did you learn about the poem as a whole from this brief, but deep, dive into the two lines?
  5. Please have your essay printed, with the peer review sheet, and first draft, stapled (and proofread) by 6:00 to get participation points.

NOTE: 11 copies of The Intuitionist are now in the bookstore, near the counter. Please bring your copy next Tuesday.

NOTE: I’ve changed my office hours to: Wednesdays from 9-11 am. And by appointment.

 

Best,

Prof. Scanlan