

Compose a 750 to 1250 word essay using one of the following questions: Select only TWO of the poems shown below. Identify one dominant theme in each poem. Construct an argument about how the tone, speaker, and diction help in developing that theme. Successfully completing this assignment will involve constructing an overall thesis for your essay that addresses one of the prompts above and then using quotations and references to specific scenes from the works you select. • William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” • Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” • Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” • Anonymous, “Sir Patrick Spence” • Robert Frost, “Out, Out—“ • Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” • John Dyer, excerpt from In The Fleece • William Stafford, “Ask Me” Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” • Stephen Crane, “The Wayfarer” • Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book” • Walt Whitman, “To A Locomotive in Winter” • Emily Dickinson, “I like to see it lap the Miles” • Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward” • Weldon Kees, “For My Daughter” • Natasha Trethewey, “White Lies” • Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Luke Havergal” • Anonymous, “Dog Haiku” • William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” • Charlotte Mew, “The Farmer’s Bride” • William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” • Robert Creeley, “Oh No” • W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” • Sharon Olds, “Rite of Passage” • Sarah N. Cleghorn, “The Golf Links” • Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Second Fig” • Thomas Hardy, “The Workbox” Kennedy, X.J., and Dana Gioia, editors. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. 13th ed., Pearson, 2016,