What you are looking to do is to explain how subjects and styles are different in each of the three periods.

What you are looking to do is to explain how subjects and styles are different in each of the three periods. Your analysis can include the information and techniques described in the introduction to the poetry unit in The Riverside Anthology. Or, if you choose, you may use Frye’s The Educated Imagination, as the basis for your analysis, or you may use another literary theory. The bottom line is you must take three poems from different time frames and show how they differ in style and subjective emphasis.