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Summary
TLDRIn this educational video, students are guided on writing a poetry essay focused on a poem not listed among the '100 Best.' The instructor emphasizes selecting a poem, such as 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' and persuading readers of its merits. The essay should be organized in MLA format, with a catchy title, and cover three pages discussing three elements of poetry: theme, rhyme, and tone. The instructor provides a detailed breakdown of how to analyze these elements, using quotes from the poem and personal anecdotes to illustrate points. The goal is to persuade the reader of the poem's significance, potentially using historical references like President Kennedy's use of Frost's poetry. The deadline for the essay is set for the first of March.
Takeaways
- 📝 The lecture focuses on writing a poetry essay, emphasizing the importance of selecting a poem not on a provided list of 100 to analyze.
- 🎨 The students are tasked with persuading the reader why their chosen poem is exceptional and should be considered among the best.
- 🌐 Contemporary poems and those by renowned poets like Seamus Heaney or ee cummings are suggested for selection, encouraging a broad exploration of poetry.
- 📜 The essay should be organized into a three-page MLA format with a catchy title, double-spaced, and in 12-point font.
- 📝 The essay must include a thesis that names the poem and identifies three elements of poetry that will be discussed.
- 📖 The instructor uses 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost as an example, highlighting theme, rhyme, and tone as key elements.
- 🔍 The theme of the poem is explored through the lens of personal commitments and societal connections, using quotes and personal anecdotes to illustrate the message.
- 🎶 The rhyme scheme of the poem is analyzed, noting how it foreshadows and structures the poem's progression.
- 🎭 The tone of the poem is discussed, emphasizing the feeling of larger commitments beyond the individual's immediate experience.
- ✍️ The lecture provides a detailed checklist for essay writing, including an attention-getter, thesis, topic sentences, quotes, and a conclusion that broadens the focus.
- 📆 The assignment is due by the first of March, giving students ample time to research, select a poem, and craft a compelling essay.
Q & A
What is the main focus of the lecture?
-The main focus of the lecture is on guiding students to write a poetry essay, persuading why a poem not on a provided list of 100 is better.
What are some examples of poems students can choose for their essay?
-Students can choose poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Haiku', a sonnet by Shakespeare, or more contemporary poems like 'Digging' by Seamus Heaney or works by ee cummings.
What are the three elements of poetry students should use to persuade in their essay?
-Students should use three different elements of poetry to persuade in their essay, such as theme, rhyme, and tone.
What is the significance of the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' in the lecture?
-The poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' is used as an example to demonstrate how to write the essay, despite it being on the list of 100, to show how it could be argued as the best.
What is the role of theme in the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' according to the lecture?
-The theme of the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' is about the importance of keeping promises and the realization that we have commitments to others beyond our own desires.
How does the rhyme scheme in 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' contribute to its effectiveness, as explained in the lecture?
-The rhyme scheme in the poem contributes to its effectiveness by creating a predictable pattern that is broken at the end, drawing attention to the concluding lines and reinforcing the poem's message.
What is the purpose of quoting the poem throughout the essay?
-Quoting the poem throughout the essay serves to support the arguments made about the poem's elements and to provide evidence for the claims being made in the essay.
Why is it important to include a catchy title in a poetry essay?
-A catchy title in a poetry essay is important because it grabs the reader's attention and sets the tone for the analysis that follows.
What is the significance of the repeated line 'miles to go before I sleep' in the poem?
-The repeated line 'miles to go before I sleep' signifies the poet's awareness of the responsibilities and commitments that await him, even as he enjoys the peaceful scene before him.
What is the deadline for submitting the poetry essay as mentioned in the lecture?
-The deadline for submitting the poetry essay is mentioned to be by the first of March, before midnight.
What additional advice does the lecturer give for writing the poetry essay?
-The lecturer advises students to find a good poem, use quotes effectively, explain the quotes, and not over-quote. They also suggest organizing the essay with an attention-getter, thesis, topic sentences, body paragraphs with quotes, and a conclusion that restates the thesis and broadens the focus.
Outlines
📚 Writing a Poetry Essay
The speaker introduces the topic of writing a poetry essay, emphasizing the need to select a poem not on a provided list of one hundred. The goal is to persuade the reader why the chosen poem is exceptional. Suggestions are made to consider various types of poems, such as 'Lady Lazarus' or a sonnet by Shakespeare. The essay should be organized into three pages, following MLA format with a catchy title. The speaker proposes to use 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' as an example, focusing on three elements of poetry: theme, rhyme, and tone. The importance of quoting the poem throughout the essay is highlighted, and the speaker begins to discuss the theme of the example poem, which revolves around the idea of keeping promises and the responsibilities we have to others.
🎨 Analyzing Poetic Elements
The speaker continues the discussion by delving into the specific elements of poetry that will be analyzed in the essay: theme, rhyme, and tone. For the theme, personal examples are used to illustrate the message of commitment and responsibility. The rhyme scheme of the poem is explored, noting how it foreshadows the content of the following stanza and how the change in the number of beats at the end of the poem draws attention to the conclusion. The speaker also touches on the tone of the poem, which conveys a sense of larger commitments beyond the individual's immediate experience. The importance of using quotes from the poem to support the analysis is emphasized, and the speaker provides a method for incorporating these quotes effectively into the essay.
📝 Essay Structure and Conclusion
The final paragraph outlines the structure of the poetry essay, including the use of an attention-getter, a clear thesis statement, and topic sentences for each of the three elements being analyzed. The speaker advises on the inclusion of quotes within the body paragraphs and the importance of explaining these quotes to support the analysis. The conclusion of the essay should restate the thesis, summarize the main points, and broaden the focus, possibly by relating the poem to broader cultural or historical contexts. The speaker provides a deadline for the essay submission and encourages students to find a poem that resonates with them, suggesting that classic American poets like Robert Frost and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow should be read and remembered.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Poetry Essay
💡Persuasion
💡MLA Format
💡Catchy Title
💡Theme
💡Rhyme
💡Tone
💡Quotation
💡Introduction
💡Conclusion
Highlights
Introduction to writing a poetry essay, focusing on selecting a poem not on the provided list of a hundred.
The task is to persuade why a chosen poem is better than those on the list.
Suggestions to pick poems like 'Lady Lazarus', 'Haiku', or a sonnet by Shakespeare not on the list.
Emphasis on choosing a poem that is more contemporary or aligns with themes like English B.
Guidelines for organizing the essay in MLA format, with a catchy title and three complete pages.
Instructions to include the poem's name and three elements of poetry in the thesis statement.
Example given: Using 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost as a case study.
Explanation of how to use three elements of poetry: theme, rhyme, and tone.
Discussion on the importance of quoting the poem throughout the essay.
Advice on how to write the introduction, including a hook and thesis statement.
Detail on constructing body paragraphs around the chosen elements, starting with theme.
Example of how to incorporate personal anecdotes to illustrate the theme of commitments.
Analysis of the poem's rhyme scheme and its impact on the reader.
Discussion on the change in line beats near the poem's conclusion and its significance.
Explanation of the poem's tone and how it reinforces the message.
Checklist provided for essay structure, including an attention-getter, thesis, topic sentences, quotes, and conclusion.
Advice on restating the thesis, summarizing points, and broadening the focus in the conclusion.
Assignment deadline mentioned, giving students ample time to complete the essay.
Transcripts
hi students we're going to be talking
about
writing a poetry essay for the next 10
12 minutes
and i got a few things on the board to
explain
so basically
um instead of just picking up home and
writing about it i'm going to make you
pick a poem not on the list of a hundred
that i that i gave you earlier in the
week or last week
and you need to persuade us
why
that poem not on the list is better so
think you could go to lady lazarus you
could go to haiku
you could go to a sonnet by shakespeare
that's not on there
there are a lot of different poems that
are not on their theme for english b
there's just a ton of poems that didn't
make the hundred best so you could pick
something more contemporary
digging by seamus heaney
um
something by ee cummings who never
capitalized stuff so he was kind of
the beginning of that we're not using
capitalization
so find a poem and then of course
you need to organize an essay three
pages so let me present the board now a
little bit
um
poetry essay
three complete pages mla format course
double space 12 point font a title
catchy okay so choose a poem not on the
list of a hundred to write about so
again they're a lot you can go to
poetry.com there's a whole list there
for you to look at which poem not on the
list is the best in your opinion okay
so think of a different one i'm going to
write i'm actually going to speak about
one of my favorites of all time stopping
by woods at a snowy evening now it is on
the list but i'm still going to go
through and say well i think it's the
best poem
as much as you can compare them so we're
kind of exaggerating things a bit it's a
bit um
you know prefabricated in a way because
would you normally say
it's gonna depend on the poem and
um the type of poem it is is it a love
poem is it a hopeful poem is it a
contemplative poem etc
uh persuade us using three elements of
poetry so you gotta use three different
ones so let me explain the ones i would
use here
so make sure in your thesis you give us
the name of the poem and the three
elements so i'm going to say theme
rhyme
and tone
and in robert frost's walking by
stopping by woods in a snowy evening
they all end up working together
okay so quote poem throughout so i'll do
that
i don't actually have a copy of it
pulled up
but um
i can remember some lines since i had to
memorize the poem in in poetry or
english 102. okay
so um
so i'm going to be writing about
stopping by woods on a snowy evening
i'm going to start with the message so
that would be
you know after i come up with a quote
write an introduction have my thesis
that first body paragraph will be about
and you follow the order that you put it
in in your thesis so theme so i'm going
to talk basically a message
so message it all works together
so at the end um
he's talking about promises to keep and
miles to go before i sleep and miles to
go before i sleep and he that's repeated
twice i didn't just say it
not realizing that okay
um
so first again message
so it's about
promises it's about keeping our promises
and
even though personally
you know you're there
you're looking at a great view of the
snow
and it's peaceful
and
you're resting you're freeing your mind
um
you know that can only last so long
before we realize well we're connected
to other people our families
you know parents brothers sisters
children
spouse
friends all those kinds of things
colleagues that are really
really important bonds too okay so
i'm going to start with a uh
a topic sentence that has it so i'll say
um
the theme of the poem reinforces the
idea that
um
we have other commitments and not just
um we have other we have commenced to
others and we can't just worry about
ourselves okay
and then for that paragraph i'm going to
get a quote
you know promises to keep and promises
to keep you know miles to go before i
sleep miles to go before sleep so i'm
going to use a quote in there then i
might give other examples it could be
from your work your family
you know for example you know my parents
are rather elderly my dad's 91 he's got
now he's got he had coveted but he
survived
and now he's got swelling in his legs
and something maybe wrong with his
kidneys and heart so i have to be ready
to get on the airplane at any time and
go to seattle to see him
you know
and i just
so that's part of the commitments you
know i have my family here my kids my
wife i still have to go
i'd still have promises to keep with my
parents after all they did for me
right
um so that's the kind of the theme you
can give examples you could come up with
other examples
then um
i would see if there were any other
quotes that would fit that fit in that
paragraph
and
i'm not thinking of any so i'm going to
go on so now i'm going to go to rhyme
and then i'm going to start my second
body paragraph and i'm going to say
um
another element that makes this poem so
great is
the rhyme schemes
and then i'm going to show how you
remember in that poem
the third line of the stanza
is what the rhyme scheme is going to be
in the next stanza okay
so there's one the third line doesn't
match
with the other three lines and that
stanza but it it's kind of
foreboding it's kind of predicting
um
uh what's gonna happen in the next
stanza so then that's the rhyme scheme
so what that does
is until you get down to the very end
then
also
the number
of beats on the line changes the last
two lines so that makes the last two
lines you know miles to go before i
sleep miles to go before i sleep is a
different
number of beats it's shorter so it gets
your attention so it leads you to the
point of the poem here
okay
so then i would make sure i have those
quotes in there
i explained the rhyme scheme and how
the last stanza of frost poem has
um
fewer syllables okay
and so it kind of cuts it's kind of
short you notice it after the
predictability
of the first three stanzas where
it's the same number of beats and sounds
and then at the end so it kind of gets
your attention and that's exactly what
the speaker and of course the poet frost
wants us to do and then finally i would
get to tone
the feeling that he gives that feeling
that there are things bigger than than
individuals
you know the individual's sitting there
with his horse and the sleigh
and
you know the horse
wants to leave basically because it's
you know it likes to exercise it's cold
so it's you know the shortest day of the
year things like that
and so tone you want to get that and you
get that all at the end and it's all
reinforced by the fact that
there are fewer beats or fewer syllables
in the last two lines you know miles to
go before i sleep and miles to go before
i sleep and it's repeated
so again make sure you're using
quotes from the poem
you could put the line number in
parentheses
and be sure to explain your quotes
and
um probably don't over quote but make
sure you've got a quote or two in each
each of the body paragraphs now over on
this side
if you can see it very well
um we have the checklist so here you go
so attention getter quote or proverb
okay
so i might actually start with quoting
president kennedy when on the on the
campaign trail he would quote frost poem
and save miles to go before i sleep in
miles to go before i sleep to say he's
got to move on to the next stop you know
so that kind of reinforces again the
whole idea
and then i would have my thesis
here are the three elements that make
this poem so great and definitely
deserves to be on the top 10 list
probably
my opinion and then topic sentences i
talked about that
you're going to have a topic sentence
about theme a topic sentence about rhyme
in a topic sentence about
tone tone remembers the feeling that the
poem gives
quotes in the body paragraph finally
conclusion
um remember
so you need to restate your thesis in
other words
this is the poem these are the three
elements i wrote about
summarize the points that you made
and then finally broaden your focus
i could go back again to
you know president kennedy
quoting that poem on the campaign trail
and
um
that i could maybe talk a lot about why
he liked it so much and after all robert
frost is the one that read at his
inauguration in 1960 61 i think okay
um you can offer a solution you can talk
about the future call to action
so i think in a way we need a return to
some american poets like frost and
longfellow it's kind of been
forgotten
and they're definitely good and should
be
read and remembered you know in a class
like this
and in addition to a lot of other poems
so again get out there find a good poem
and um
i had a long list of suggestions i might
put that
on a note
so this is what you need to do you're
gonna have till
um
i think the
the first
of march to get this turned in
before midnight okay
okay that's all i have good luck and
good night
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