PART ONE  

-Adrienne Rich’s “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (p. 799)

-Robert Frosts’s “The Road Not Taken” (p. 805)

-William Butler Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” (p.874)

-Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” (p. 885)

-Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (p. 891) 

To begin your discussion post, please share at least one question you have about the poems we read. Do you have a question about a specific detail? About the meaning or message in a poem? Share it here so we can discuss it! Then please consider and respond to the following questions. Make sure to keep up that habit of incorporating specific textual examples and quotations to support your analysis.

Next, is the relationship between father in child portrayed in y PapaàWaltz! positive or negative one? Why?

What are unt JenniferàTigers!nd %da and the Swan!bout? How do the authors use figurative language to share the stories of the characters in their poems? Use examples from the poems to support your claims.

Finally, which poem is more inspirational: (e Road Not Taken/r  / Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightàWhy?

I know poetry can be tricky so don worry about whether or not your analysis is correct on the first try! We are here to discuss the poems and learn about them together. Just work to support your claims by incorporating specific quotations from the poems. Including those quotations from the text is worth 15% of this discussion forum’s grade.

PART TWO

For this exercise, please select one of the five poems we read this week based on which one you found most striking. In other words, which poem resonated with you most?

After selecting your poem, do some prewriting by making notes about the following elements of the piece: characters, imagery and theme. Jot down who the characters are. Keep in mind that the poemàspeaker may be playing a character. Remember, too, that the poemànarrator is not the same thing as the poemàauthor. What events do these characters endure and how do those events impact them? Then, think about the most important images in the poem; how do these images relate to the subtext of the poem? Finally, what is the theme/message of the poem?