What does the poem from "The Art of (Reading) Poetry" say about the nature of poetry and the experience of reading it? What are its main ideas?
How well does the poem from "The Art of (Reading) Poetry" reflect its own main ideas? In other words, is this poem special in the ways that it says poetry should be special? Does it have the characteristics of poetry that it says poetry should have?
Is your experience of reading the poem what it says the experience of reading poetry should be? Why or why not?
What are the main ideas expressed in the poem you chose by Rich or Mora? How well do the main ideas expressed in this poem compare with the topics, themes, or ideas the art-of-poetry poem suggests poetry should cover?
How well does the poem by Rich or Mora that you chose reflect the ideas about poetry expressed in the poem you chose from "The Art of (Reading) Poetry"?
In other words, does Rich's or Mora's poem have the characteristics that the poem about the art of poetry says poems should have? Is your experience of reading Mora's or Rich's poem what the art-of-poetry poem says the experience should be? Why or why not?
How do the two poems compare? Do they use similar techniques to have effects on their readers? In other words, do they use similar diction, figures of speech, ways of characterizing their speakers, or rhythm?
How are these techniques related to your experience of reading the poems and how well they fit the ideas about poetry in the art-of-poetry poem?