POEM ANALYSIS AND QUOTATION ANALYSIS Assignment | Online Assignment

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First Part POEM ANALYSIS

 

This Final Exam contains two parts: A Poetry Analysis and a Quote Identification and Analysis.

Please carefully read the directions for each part.  Please submit both parts of the final in one document.

You are not allowed to use outside sources (websites, blogs, or the library databases).  Use your own words to analyze

Any exam that contains information from outside sources will be considered plagiarism and will result in failing grade (zero).

3 Pages  (900 Words)

You are required to perform two tasks in your analysis.

1) First you must conduct a close reading of the poem (describing in detail the speaker, the audience, situation/setting, imagery, diction/sound, and syntax). Be sure to use poetic terms in your analysis.

2) Secondly, you must explain what three critical approaches would work the best in analyzing this poem. What aspects of the poem would critics from these schools find interesting? What claims/interpretation might they make about the poem?

“Fall poem”

 

by Danez Smith (2020)

 

the leaves done done their annual shimmy.

now the streetlight with no soft green curtain

cuts a silver blade across my bed

 

& my body. I didn’t want to start with leaves

even though I love how the trees turned the colors of aunts

and soul-train- line to the ground each October. no one

 

wants to hear a poem about fall; much prefer the fallen

body, something easy to mourn, body cut out of the light

body lit up with bullets. see how easy it is to bring the bullets?

 

is it possible to ban guns? even from this poem?

i lie in the light, body split by light, room too bright for sleep

thinking of the leaf-colored bodies, their weekly fall

 

how their bodies look like mounds of a tree’s shed skin

a child could jump into them & play for hours.

there i go talking about our dead & if you don’t think

 

they are your dead, i’ve run from your hands, they are red

like the tree down the street, a hot-air balloon

of blood the leaves dyed fruit-punch red, red as a child’s red mouth

 

after an afternoon spend on the porch with a bag of takis

watching other kids walk by, waiting for kids who don’t

pass anymore on the other side of summer, who maybe go

 

to a different school or moved out east or made like a tree

& now sleep in a box made from one.

 

 

 

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Part II.   Quote Identification and Analysis

 

Directions for Quotation Analysis

• Choose eight of the following quotations and follow these parameters: You are only allowed to discuss a single work once.  Do not choose two quotations from the same work
• One quote must come from A Raisin in the Sun

 

• Identify the author and title of your chosen quotations. Then explain how this quote helps you to how it anticipates the work’s theme, conflicts, point of view or represents a speaker/character or recurring metaphor/symbol.

 

• Warning: Just paraphrasing what the quote says or giving a summary of the entire story/play/poem will get you zero points.

 

• Don’t use outside resources. No work cite.
• Length: Each analysis should be at least a 100 word response.(800 words) 2page and half page)

 

 

 

Please chose eight of these quotations.

 

 

1. “Bouncing on the wagon springs, she smelled the damp earth and the heaving trees. Why had this field escaped while another burned five miles back? Plantation justice was mean and constant, but the world was indiscriminate.  Out in the world, the wicked escaped comeuppance and the decent stood in their stead at the whipping tree.”

 

 

3. “ Indeed, meaning: in fact/en efecto,
   meaning: in reality/de hecho, meaning to say now
   what I always meant to tell him in both languages:
   thank you/gracias for surrendering the past tense
   of your life so that I might conjugate myself here
   in the present of this country, in truth/así es, indeed.”

 

4. “In fine, we thought that he was everything / To make us wish that we were in his place. / So on we worked, and waited for the light, / And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;”

 

5. “The golf links lie so near the mill
   That almost every day
   The laboring children can look out
   And see the men at play.”

 

6. “No chicken jokes in this movie./No bullets in the heroes. & no one kills the black boy. & no one kills/ the black boy. & no one kills the black boy.”
7. “We / Sing sin. We / Thin gin.”

8“You know what’s going to happen to that boy someday—he’ll find himself sitting in a dungeon, locked forever—and the takers will have the key! Forget it, baby! There ain’t no causes—there ain’t nothing but taking in this world, and he who takes the most is smartest—and it don’t make a damn bit of difference how.”

9. “& what is a girl if not a pulsing thing learning what the world will take from her & what if I am still a girl sitting in my classroom on the lucky side of town making a careless joke looking at the teacher for some kind of answer.”

 

10. “When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.”

 

 

 

 

11. “Mrs. Walker brought a persimmon to class

and cut it up

so everyone could taste

a Chinese apple. Knowing

it wasn’t ripe or sweet, I didn’t eat

but watched the other faces.”

 

12. “You beat time on my head/ With a palm caked hard by dirt/Then waltzed me off to bed/ Still clinging to your shirt.”

 

13. “The tigers in the panel that she made/Will go prancing, proud, and unafraid.”

 

14. “It is a kind of weeping the body does, expelling/ foreign material, sometimes years after injury.”

 

15. “But all they want to do/ is tie the poem to a chair with a rope/ and torture a confession out of it.”

 

16. “But you’ve got to admit that a man, right or wrong, has the right to want to have a neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way. And at the moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background. I want you to believe me when I tell you that race prejudice simply doesn’t enter into it.”

 

 

 

 

 

EXAMPLE OF QUOTATION ANALYSIS (no need to add the actual quote just tell me which quote #-Below is example and how I wanted done.

 

Qoute #

The quote is from Toni Morrison’s short story “Recitatif” and is taken from a conversation that takes place between two childhood friends, Twyla and Roberta. The quote did not mention the name of the person Roberta is talking about but it is evident that she meant “Maggie”, a disposition of the story that is rather used as a metaphor throughout the narrative. The quote asserts that Roberta, after all these years is unable to recall the actual identity of Maggie, she just remembers her weaknesses, fragility, and vulnerability that made her the victim of others mockery and mistreatment; but deep down the oppressors and people who demonstrated apathy were all as susceptible as Maggie.