Explain about poetry with an analytical response to it showing readers where and how the text supports your interpretation through the use of both details from the lyrics/poetry and secondary sources.

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Subject: Essays

Major Paper #2 for ENC 1102 at MDC: Musical Album/Poetry Analysis Essay

Assignment: Your goal is to “(p)ose an interpretive question about a group of poems by the same author and respond analytically showing your readers how the poetry support your interpretation.” If you choose to use poetry, make sure the poems have something in common. You need to pick no fewer than 3 poems support your thesis. “In the introduction to your essay, pose an interesting, problematic, and significant question about the poetry, one that can be answered several different ways according to the evidence in the text. Look for a question that might lead to differences in opinion among your classmates and that offers readers new insights into the poetry. Your task in this assignment is not to discover the right way to interpret the text, but to explain your way of reading some aspect of it.

Using a closed-form structure, present your thesis and your supporting arguments. Before you give your thesis, make clear just what question you are putting to the text and why. It is this question that engages your readers’ interest and makes them look forward to your analysis.” (In other words, no one should ask, “Who cares?” after reading your introductory paragraph). Then, in the body of your paper, explain your own responses to this question, contrasting your answer with other possible interpretations that (may) have been proposed by your classmates (or others) or that you yourself have considered. You need to provide the citation/integration of at least two secondary sources that provide an insight into your reading of the poetry. Feel free to dispute “the alternative interpretations” if necessary, but “concentrate on showing your reader how you arrived at your interpretation and why you think that interpretation is valuable. Use details from the poetry (and appropriate secondary sources) for support.”

Good literary questions call attention to problematic details of the text, stimulate conversation, and provoke readers to return to the text to reread and rethink. You know you have a good question if (others) disagree about the answer and (can) contribute their own views to the conversation.”

Evaluation Criteria:
-Provision of a fairly original interpretive question about poetry with an analytical response to it showing readers where and how the text supports your interpretation through the use of both details from the lyrics/poetry and secondary sources.
-The consideration and integration in writing of the ideas of at least two outside/secondary sources
-Few grammatical errors; adherence to MLA style.

Requirements and Guidelines: All drafts and the final product must be typed, doubled-spaced, Times New Roman (or other acceptable 12 pt. Font). Your margins must be one inch, and you must have a proper MLA heading of four lines and a centered title with all pages numbered as per MLA stipulations (consult either of your texts).

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