Poetry

  Order Description   Essay Project 1: Poetry   Question: What makes a powerful poem or song?\   Claim and support your claim with evidence from a minimum of 3 of the 5 poems you selected for this project. Your goal is to communicate what you think makes a powerful poem and you should address some of the important literary devices the author uses to make it powerful, e.g. theme, imagery, tone, figurative language, etc.   Poems we've analyzed: • "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath • "Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams • "Kinky" by Denise Duhamel • "Skinhead" by Patricia Smith • "The Boy Who Died In My Alley" by Gwendolyn Brooks.