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Hello! This course guide has been created for students enrolled in ENGL1010 at the Bellarmine campus. 

In this guide, you will find several resources intended to help with your Annotated Poetry Collection assignment.

Need helping finding poems on your chosen theme? Librarians can help you! Use the chat box or appointment link on this page, or stop by the Library during drop-in research hours. 

 

Class Agenda, 10/29/24:

Class taught by Research Librarian, Lisa Thornell  lthornell@fairfield.edu

  • Welcome - do you have a favorite poem or poet?
  • Review assignment details
  • Search poetry websites
  • Search the Library catalog for Books
  • Navigate to the English Research Guide

Class Examples:

Theme:  Motherhood/Innocence of Childhood

Assignment Details

 

Annotated Poetry Collection

First, think of a theme you wish to examine more deeply through poetry. Options might include (but are certainly not limited to):

  • Appearance vs Reality
  • Family
  • Trauma
  • Coming Of Age
  • Gender
  • Love
  • Sexuality
  • Grief/Loss

Using library resources, the Poetry Foundation website or other digital or print sources, find 4-5 poems that echo your selected theme. The chosen poems should be published (in a book, journal, anthology, etc.). For each poem, write a 2-page exploration of how that poem exemplifies your theme. Incorporate quotes from the poem, and consider elements like speaker, point of view, situation, setting, theme, tone, sound, word choice, imagery, symbolism, allusion, or anything else that feels relevant. Discuss which other piece or pieces of literature you read this semester in which you also encountered this theme.  If you are interested in creative writing, you may write one of the poems yourself, but this is optional.  Finally, write a 1–2-page introduction, explaining why and how you made your choice of theme, and how you searched for and found that same theme reflected in the poems you selected.

Format/Guidelines:

  • Title Page
  • Introduction
  • Text/Author of Selected Poem
  • Theme Annotation
  • Works Cited
  • Times New Roman Font (12)
  • Double Spaced

Poetry Foundation - Glossary of Poetic Terms

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