Literature essay
POEM- IN THE PARK BY GWEN HARWOOD
--- I INCLUDED A THESIS I WANT YOU TO USE
-- Use close reading techniques
-- Develop an argumentative thesis for your analysis
-- Write a 2-3 paper that supports your thesis.
-- At the end of the essay, provide a Writing Process Summation by answering the following questions:
• Why did you choose this poem?
• How did you arrive at your understanding and assertion about the poem?
• What were the points you made in this essay?
• How did you revise this?
• What do you want your reader to see from your essay?
---This paper must have a Works Cited page, separate from the body of the essay
--Insert a page break to make sure it is always on another page. See p. 462 in The Little, Brown Handbookfor the example for citing a selection from an anthology, such as The Norton Introduction to Literature
THESIS:
"In the Park," by Gwen Harwood
The woman thinks the man sees her as distressed, angry, and irrational because she is mourning.
In the park encompasses life after death. There a woman who is looking for strength or sign that everything is going to be okay even though she just lost a loved one. She has 3 kids and she feels totally alone. I think the author captures this theme very well with each stanza.
With Gwen use of imagery throughout the poem i plan on highlighting the key stanza's that bring out the theme of the poem. I also want to highlight how Gwen fulfill what the lady in the park longed for
The thesis is the key points you will then make in the body of your essay. Develop them in the order you present them. Give examples from the poem and use in-text, parenthetical citations with the line of poetry-ex. (Harwood ll. 2-3). After the first time, you use line (l.) or lines (ll.) just give the poem line (14).
Summarize the points you make, and conclude your essay by somewhat mirroring your introduction in your final paragraph. Do not use the same exact words and phrasing, but make sure the meaning of the introduction and the conclusion are the same.