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I have two poems and I need write an analysis paper for both of poem.

POETRY PRESENTATION

Presentation time: Approx. 1 minute.

Select a poem for presentation from your research.

*Be sure the poem fits the time requirement for this presentation. If it is too long, you may need to edit it down. If it is too short, you may need to do a poem series: add a second or third poem from the same author, or one that follows the same theme. In rehearsal, keep in mind class lecture and discussion regarding engagement with and connection to the text, the emotional life of the poem, and your audience; the point of view/attitude/intention of the speaker; how you might communicate the message/theme/feeling of the poem using the specific words, images, and etc. that the poet has provided; how you might affect your audience.

You may read from paper/binder/notebook, standing behind or in front of the podium. As always, you need to have more eye contact with the audience than the text-75%. On the day of presentation, you must also turn in an analysis of your poem:

A typed copy of the poem should be annotated noting various elements of poetry found within. These features include but are not limited to: form/structure, imagery, voice/persona, symbols, archetypes, simile, metaphor, allusion, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, onomatopoeia, etc. (Consult your text or lecture notes.) Please make these explanatory notes and comments clearly and legibly on the page.

Additionally, you should note the theme of the poem (in one, full sentence) as well as any other important or significant information or further discussion of the elements noted. This might include further discussion of symbols or metaphors found in the poem, imagery, archetypes, references to historical events or literature, information about the reason for the poet's writing of the poem, etc. Consider why the poet chose certain words, or chose to rhyme or not to, or why he/she included or left out certain features of poetry, etc. (If you do not have enough space, please attach a separate page STAPLED to the first.).

A Dandelion for my Mother
By: Jean Nordhaus

How I loved those spiky suns,
rooted stubborn as childhood
in the grass, tough as the farmer's
big-headed children-the mats
of yellow hair, the bowl-cut fringe.
How sturdy they were and how
slowly they turned themselves
into galaxies, domes of ghost stars
barely visible by day, pale
cerebrums clinging to life
on tough green stems. Like you.
Like you, in the end. If you were here,
I'd pluck this trembling globe to show
how beautiful a thing can be
a breath will tear away.

Rock me, Mercy
By: YusefKomunyakaa

The river stones are listening
because we have something to say.
The trees lean closer today.
The singing in the electrical woods
has gone dumb. It looks like rain
because it is too warm to snow.
Guardian angels, wherever you're hiding,
we know you can't be everywhere at once.
Have you corralled all the pretty wild
horses? The memory of ants asleep
in daylilies, roses, holly, & larkspur.
The magpies gaze at us, still
waiting. River stones are listening.
But all we can say now is,
Mercy, please, rock me.