Read "A Quick Guide to Reading Poetry”

Answer four (4) of the following questions:
1.) Explain, with reference to specific lines, the changes (transitions) that the narrator in Ezra Pound's "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" goes through.
2.) Explain, with reference to specific lines, your emotional reaction to Sharon Olds' "I Go Back to May 1937."
3.) Explain the relationship between the last two lines of Berryman's "Dream Song 1"--"Hard on the land wears the strong sea / and empty grows every bed"--and the rest of the poem.
4.) What seems to prompt the writing of Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"?
5.) The last lines of Hayden's poem--"What did I know, what did I know / Of love's austere and lonely offices?" (lines 13-14)--are rather famous. Explain, in detail, your reaction to and understanding of these lines.
6.) How is Seamus Heaney's "Mid-Term Break" both a traditional and non-traditional elegy?
7.) What seems to be missing from the narrator's experience and understanding of his brother's death in Seamus Heaney's "Mid-Term Break"?