You will perform a 3-page close reading of a poem(s) from the first 6 weeks of our course. You will use a theme
common in one of our “critical lenses” (Marxism, feminism, etc.). For example, if you analyze a poem by
Wordsworth, you might explicate the poem in terms of alienation, class struggle, or exploitation (a Marxist
lense). If you analyze a poem by Audre Lorde, you might explicate the poem in terms of patriarchy, sexism,
gender oppression, women’s liberation, or sexual repression/liberation.

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