[lmosco]

I cannot ask a teacher as im currently at home for summer and have to resit this assignment. However im not sure what it is im supposed to do. This is what it says on my module handbook


"Compilation of a personal Anthology of 10 examples of English verse. The Anthology should include a 500 word Introduction, outlining the rationale for your choice. Poems selected should be chosen largely, but not necessarily exclusively, from the Penguin anthology (if you want to include poems from other sources you should run this past your tutor first). They should be accurately transcribed and annotated with as much scholarly detail as is necessary to illuminate form, allusion/reference, and diction. "

[evantej]

(Original post by lmosco)
I cannot ask a teacher as im currently at home for summer and have to resit this assignment. However im not sure what it is im supposed to do. This is what it says on my module handbook


"Compilation of a personal Anthology of 10 examples of English verse. The Anthology should include a 500 word Introduction, outlining the rationale for your choice. Poems selected should be chosen largely, but not necessarily exclusively, from the Penguin anthology (if you want to include poems from other sources you should run this past your tutor first). They should be accurately transcribed and annotated with as much scholarly detail as is necessary to illuminate form, allusion/reference, and diction. "

I assume you are a first year student, and the course is thematic (e.g. Romantic poetry or twentieth century literature etc.). What the assignment is asking you to do is select ten poems from the Penguin anthology, and if the above is true then I would select ten that are relevant to the theme of the unit, then annotate them to show you know how to identify stylistic points etc., etc..

For example, if I give you the first five lines of Shelley's Mont Blanc

The everlasting universe of things
Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,
Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom—
Now lending splendour, where from secret springs
The source of human thought its tribute brings

Would you be able to identify its metre or where caesura occurs, and, more importantly, why it occurs? Why has Shelley used a rhyming couplet at the end of line four and five? What is a rhyming couplet? Why use a rhyming couplet at the end of a line rather than at the beginning or in the middle, or at all? Etc., etc..

Focus on the stylistic issues first then try and derive their purpose from the context (e.g. Shelley's views on aesthetics in this case, and why he uses the image of Mont Blanc to illustrate them).

[Miss Scarlett]

Basically, choose ten poems from the book they have told you to, giving reasons for your choice, and analyse them.