1.

Read the following poem carefully. Then write an essay in which you
discuss how use of language in the poem determines the readers
response to the speaker and his situation.

2.

Read the following poem carefully. Then write an essay in which you
discuss the ways in which the authors style (diction, imagery,
selection of detail) reveals his feeling about what he recalls and cannot
remember about his youth.

3.

Read the following poem carefully. Write an essay in which you discuss
how the choice of detail, diction, and syntax are used to reveal the
speakers attitude to the subject.

4.

Read the following poem carefully. Then write a cohesive essay in

which you show how the language of each stanza reveals the
perceptions and feelings of the speaker.

5.

Read the following poem by ____ carefully. Then write a well-organized

essay in which you briefly summarize its content and discuss how the
diction and imagery reveal the speakers attitude toward _________.

6.

Write a well-organized essay in which you discuss how the imagery of

the last ___(number)___ stanzas is related to and different from the
imagery of the first ___(number)___ stanzas. Explain how this difference
determines the tone and meaning of the poem as a whole.

7.

Read carefully the following poem by ________ about

______________. Then write an essay in which you describe the
speakers attitude toward _______________________. Using specific
references to the text, show how the use of language reveals the
speakers attitude.

8.

In the following passage, which comes from the authors

autobiographical poem ___, the speaker encounters unfamiliar aspects
of the natural world. Write an essay in which you trace the
speakers changing responses to his experience and explain how they
are conveyed by the poems diction, imagery, and tone.

9.

Read carefully the following poem by _____________. Then write a wellorganized essay in which you discuss how the poems controlling
metaphor expresses the complex attitude of the speaker.