The assignment is as follows:
Prompt: Choose an American poet from your poetry packet and analyze one aspect/literary device
found in three of his or her poems. Write a well-developed research paper exploring the way the
device makes meaning/creates a theme/highlights a stylistic trend in each of the works.
Requirements:
● MLA format (1 point off per error in formatting—general formatting, Works Cited page, and
citations)
● 3-4 literary criticism sources (10 points off for each missing source)
● All parenthetical citations must have a works cited entry; all works cited entries must have at
least one parenthetical citation. (30 points off for any sources cited in the paper and not on
works cited page or any works listed on the works cited page and not cited in the paper)Prompt: Choose an American poet from your poetry packet and analyze one aspect/literary device
found in three of his or her poems. Write a well-developed research paper exploring the way the
device makes meaning/creates a theme/highlights a stylistic trend in each of the works.
Requirements:
● MLA format (1 point off per error in formatting—general formatting, Works Cited page, and
citations)
● 3-4 literary criticism sources (10 points off for each missing source)
● All parenthetical citations must have a works cited entry; all works cited entries must have at
least one parenthetical citation. (30 points off for any sources cited in the paper and not on
works cited page or any works listed on the works cited page and not cited in the paper)Prompt: Choose an American poet from your poetry packet and analyze one aspect/literary device
found in three of his or her poems. Write a well-developed research paper exploring the way the
device makes meaning/creates a theme/highlights a stylistic trend in each of the works.
Requirements:
● MLA format (1 point off per error in formatting—general formatting, Works Cited page, and
citations)
● 3-4 literary criticism sources (10 points off for each missing source)
● All parenthetical citations must have a works cited entry; all works cited entries must have at
least one parenthetical citation. (30 points off for any sources cited in the paper and not on
works cited page or any works listed on the works cited page and not cited in the paper)Prompt: Choose an American poet from your poetry packet and analyze one aspect/literary device
found in three of his or her poems. Write a well-developed research paper exploring the way the
device makes meaning/creates a theme/highlights a stylistic trend in each of the works.
Requirements:
● MLA format (1 point off per error in formatting—general formatting, Works Cited page, and
citations)
● 3-4 literary criticism sources (10 points off for each missing source)
● All parenthetical citations must have a works cited entry; all works cited entries must have at
least one parenthetical citation. (30 points off for any sources cited in the paper and not on
works cited page or any works listed on the works cited page and not cited in the paper)Prompt: Choose an American poet from your poetry packet and analyze one aspect/literary device
found in three of his or her poems. Write a well-developed research paper exploring the way the
device makes meaning/creates a theme/highlights a stylistic trend in each of the works.
Requirements:
● MLA format (1 point off per error in formatting—general formatting, Works Cited page, and
citations)
● 3-4 literary criticism sources (10 points off for each missing source)
● All parenthetical citations must have a works cited entry; all works cited entries must have at
least one parenthetical citation. (30 points off for any sources cited in the paper and not on
works cited page or any works listed on the works cited page and not cited in the paper)
The Poet we selected is as follows: Poet: Langston Hughes
Poems:
● Democracy
● The Negro speaks of Rivers
● The weary blues
Thesis:
Potential Thesis: Langston Hughes shows the real struggle of the American Dream through a black person eyes through poetry in langston hughes Democracy,
the negro speaks of rivers, the weary blues poems he uses oppression and to
show how hard the American Dream is to achieve through a black person eyes.
Thesis: In Langston Hughes Democracy, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the Weary Blues poems he uses oppression and to show that it is important to always persevere and have hope in the face of adversity.