Imagery in Poetry
Imagery in Poetry
By Thursday, post your response of at least 150-200 words to the Discussion Area. To support your comments, your discussion answers should include specific information and quotations from the readings.
Prompt:
Choose a poem from the assigned readings, which are listed in the Syllabus and found in our course eBook.
Title your discussion response with the poem’s title. This will help other students see which poems have already been discussed.
Once a poem has been discussed twice, please do not choose it for analysis.
Review all of the thread starters including the closed list before beginning your response.
Post a response of at least 150-200 words, focusing on the elements below.
Identify the key images in the poem, which you believe are vital to understanding it.
Provide a detailed discussion of how those images function in the poem.
Do the images work together to form a coherent pattern?
What ideas or feelings are conveyed by the images?
How do the images contribute to the overall meaning of the poem?
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