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2nd QUARTERLY PAPER (POETRY)

ENGLISH IX Mendeleev IX, Einstein IX, Galileo IX
WORKING WITH THE SAME PARTNER
YOU HAD LAST QUARTER, provide a
1000-word analysis for each of the
three poems (A total of 3000 words for
the entire output) based on the
Elements of Poetry we have discussed
previously. Discuss each element
through subsections, for example:
A. Subject
B. Context
C. Theme
D. Tone
E. Poetic Devices
General Directions

Cite at least nine to twelve (9-12)

sources in your paper, using the
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Format of the Paper.
You may ask: Why MLA?
I understand that not all of you will
be taking STEM track in the near future,
and as such, you should be acquainted
already with the different citation styles
each academic track uses. HUMSS and GAS
tracks in different Educational Institutions
implement the MLA Paper Format more
than the American Psychological
Association (APA) format we are used to
employing in our science research papers.
[MLA PAPER FORMAT]
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource
/747/13/

Where to get help

Deadline
Send to

[MLA CITATION GUIDE]

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource
/747/01/
14 November 2016, 11:59pm
Incentives will be given to those who will
submit earlier than the prescribed deadline
jayson.zabala001@deped.gov.ph

Enjoy!

STILL I RISE
Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, Ill rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
Cause I walk like Ive got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still Ill rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Dont you take it awful hard
Cause I laugh like Ive got gold mines
Diggin in my own backyard.
You
You
You
But

may shoot me with your words,

may cut me with your eyes,
may kill me with your hatefulness,
still, like air, Ill rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like Ive got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of historys shame
I rise
Up from a past thats rooted in pain
I rise
Im a black ocean, leaping and wide,

HOPE IS THE THING WITH

FEATHERS
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
Ive heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak thats wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors
gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the
slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under
sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we
cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our
backs,
And towards our distant rest began to
trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost
their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went
lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the
hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!An ecstasy of
fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and
stumbling
And floundring like a man in fire or
lime.
Dim through the misty panes and thick
green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him
drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless
sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking,
drowning.

TIPS ON ANALYSIS:
1) Sources are always available
online; however, be sure to cite
them properly to avoid
plagiarism.
2) A little background search on the
author can help identify
important elements such as the
context and subject of the poem,
as well as its theme. (makes life
easier)
3) MLA Citation Guides and MLA
Paper Formats are also available
online; the References Tab on
Microsoft Word 2010 platforms
and above can also make your
work a bit easier.

If in some smothering dreams, you too

could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in
his face,
His hanging face, like a devils sick of
sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the
blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted
lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent
tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such
high zest
To children ardent for some desperate
glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.