Exactly where and how does this particular poem use specific language figuratively or metaphorically to ‘shape’ or change or swerve away (trope) from the ordinary or literal meaning.

Directions:

Choose any three poems listed on the “Writing Project #3: Reading Poetry” class handout.

For each selected poem, write a separate ~500-word essay (three separate essays total). Read the actual language of each poem carefully and in detail. Answer this question for each poem:

Question: Exactly where and how does this particular poem use specific language figuratively or metaphorically to ‘shape’ or change or swerve away (trope) from the ordinary or literal meaning of particular words or phrases or ideas to make new and unexpected connections and express surprising and powerful ideas?

Be careful to use the actual language of each poem as your concrete evidence.

Poemms:

Chapter 12 “Reading Poetry” (337)

Francis, “Catch” (344)

Francis, “The Pitcher” (467)

Chitwood, “Men Throwing Bricks” (556)

Li Ho, “A Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair” (365)

Oliver, “The Poet with His Face in His Hands” (369)

Chapter 13 “Word Choice, Word Order, and Tone” (371)

Jarrell, “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (374)

View my VoiceThread on Jarrell’s poem. 
https://voicethread.com/myvoice/#u3829656.b5962443.i30655385

Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (382)

Lauinger, “Marvell Noir” (385).

Maltese Falcon ending https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=maltese+falcon+ending

“I won’t play the sap for you” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPT49WXC0Zo

“the detective business” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsv0WkFTiUw

“the stuff that dreams are made of” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kk3Xvw7jn0

Movies in Minutes: The Maltese Falcon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSd_MCIIKNk

Donne, “The Flea” (569)

Jonson, “On My First Son” (502)

Chapter 15 “Figures of Speech” (412)

Atwood, “You Fit into Me” (414)

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Snyder, “How Poetry Comes to Me” (421)

Donne, “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (435)

Ptolemy’s geocentric system explanation: https://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/aristotle.html

Image of Ptolemy’s geocentric system: https://www.3quarksdaily.com/.a/6a00d8341c562c53ef0120a4fce114970b-450wi