Module 3 Response Questions Select ONE of the following items. Each item may

Module 3 Response Questions Select ONE of the following items. Each item may have multiple questions, but keep in mind that you are looking to write 1-2 fluent paragraphs (225-400 words)for this response. Be sure to follow the rules posted on the handout “Instructions & Grading Rubric for Module Response Questions” found in the Orientation Module. Some key points from this: MLA Heading, Double space, Use a few relevant quotes from the literature to help make your points, do NOT use any outside sources.
Please note that each of these prompts contains multiple questions. You do not necessarily need to answer all of these questions for your response–at least, not specifically and separately. The goal is for you to be able to see the bigger picture with each prompt and to write a fluent paragraph or two paragraphs in one, unified response.
!!(Reminder: Be sure that you begin your response with “Thesis:”and your single sentence thesis.)
Again, select only ONE of the following. (Pick the one you like the most!) Please identify which prompt you are using when you submit your response. 1. What is the overall tone of Todd Boss’s “My Love for You is So Embarrassingly” (p. 869)? How effective do you think the poem is in conveying the speaker’s sentiments? Does Boss’s use of imagery, analogy, simile, and metaphor—all of which he himself describes as “anachronistic”—seem to work?
2. Read Claude McKay’s “The Harlem Dancer” (p. 868). What is the relationship between the speaker’s attitude toward the dancer and those suggested by the reactions of the “youths” and “prostitutes” early and the “boys” and “girls” later in the poem? How would you characterize/explain these different reactions? What can you tell of the dancer’s attitude to those who respond to her?
3. Read Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night” (p. 952). How do elements of form (like the verse structure of terza rima, rhyme, meter, repetition, alliteration, and any others) contribute to the overall mood/effect of the poem? Is there a relationship between these elements and our attitude or feelings toward the speaker? And, what is the effect of having the first and last line be the exact same? Does our understanding of the line change over the course of the poem at all? 4. Reread Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” (p. 872). What vision of death and the afterlife is implied/created by the way Death is personified and characterized in the poem? How do the details of the carriage ride the speaker takes with Death contribute to this vision?
5. Reread Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (p. 955). This poem is a villanelle, a very traditional poem with strict requirements for form. (It must be 19 lines long using 5 tercets and a closing quatrain; it must have only 2 rhyme sounds at the ends of lines, and it must have whole lines/phrases repeated.) Why do you think Thomas chose such a strict form for such an emotionally charged subject? What is the connection between the form of the poem and the emphasis on the images of light (life) and darkness (death)?