What makes that poem literary, in your estimation?
What makes that poem literary, in your estimation?
July 15, 2020 Comments Off on What makes that poem literary, in your estimation? Uncategorized Assignment-helpFor our Poetry Unit, please do the following:Please review the Introduction to Poetry slides with narration.Please review the Revising America slides with narration.Please read each of the four poems (Whitman, Hughes, Ginsberg, and Lim). I recommend listening to the explanation of that poet’s work and then reading the poem, flipping back and forth between the slides and poems (and the videos).Then, after reading each poem, watch the appropriate YouTube video for that poem to help you understand its structure and meaning.YouTube Links:Walt Whitman, “One Song, America, Before I Go”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqSXXYc_TLMLangston Hughes, “I, Too”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojdzsui6B-EPoem set to music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyC81qnusHM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=ULWhitman, “I Hear America Singing” (to which Hughes’s poem is a response): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46480/i-hear-america-singingAllen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGWurpkDUgGinsberg, “Howl”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, “Learning to Love America”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_eHtNAFB-Y After you have explored all four poems, please write up a response of about a page in length explaining which poem is your favorite and why you liked it best. What makes that poem literary, in your estimation? Why do you say that?Remember to choose evidence from the poem to support your claim of why it was your favorite. You should also refer to the other poems, explaining what about them prevented you from choosing them.


