Exploring Themes of Identity and Loss in Selected Poems

 

Look at these poems

E. Housman “To an Athlete Dying Young”
Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue”
Marge Piercy, “Barbie Doll”
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed”
Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors” and “Daddy”

Choose (3) poems from above and write an essay which includes your analysis of each poem. To do this, you must find connections/similarities which allow you to link the poems together with a thesis that describes the connection you want to focus on between the poems. To help you envision and plan your essay, please refer to the poetry analysis template in the document below. Ultimately, this essay will be three pages in length. The fourth page is for work cited.

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