DIRECTIONS: 1. Select any poem PUBLISHED by an African American from text, list below, or your own source. But select one that you understand. RESTRICTION: THE POEM CANNOT BE ON OUR SYLLABUS 2. Analyze poem’s content and form for meaning, using the elements of poetry. Present your analysis in essay format. Do not bore us with a line-by-line or stanza-by-stanza interpretation. Review the Sample Paper and the Poem Worksheet on “Bury Me.” You will see that the Poem Worksheet and the paper are linked. Do the Poem Worksheet first; then write your paper using the analysis that you have done on the Poem Worksheet. 3. There should be no “I” (first person) or “you” (2nd person) in your paper. Write in 3rd person (he, she, they, readers, etc.) 4. Submit paper, 500 words, double-spaced, Poem Worksheet, and copy of poem (if it is not in our book) in the Dropbox by the due date. 5. 250 points of your grade. LIST (by no means exhaustive) American Negro Poetry. Arna Bontemps, ed. Black Sister. Elene Stetson, ed. bum rush the page. Tony Medina & Louis Reyes Rivera, eds. Listen Up! Zoe Langley, ed. New Black Voices. Abraham Chapman, ed. Trouble the Water. Jerry Ward, ed. The Vintage Book of African American Poetry. Michael S. Harper & Anthony Walton, eds. Maya Angelou “Caged Bird” “Family Affairs” Mari Evans “Vive Noir!” “I am a Black Woman” Alice Walker “On Stripping Bark from Myself” James Weldon Johnson “O Black and Unknown Bards” Nikki Giovanni “Ego Tripping” “Woman Poem” “All Eyez on U (for 2Pac Shakur)” Haki Headhunting “Assassination” “But He Was Cool” “a poem to complement other poems” Margaret Walker “For my People” “Poppa Chicken” Ethe-ridge Knight “He Sees Through Stone” Lucille Clifton “the lost baby poem” “homage to my hips” Gwendolyn Brooks “a song in the front yard” “Sadie and Maud” “A Bronzeville Mother. . .” June Jordan “Owed to Eminem” Nancy D. Tolson “Bullet Hole Man” Counter Cullen “Yet Do I Marvel” Tupac Shakur “The Rose That Grew from Concrete” Benjamin Theologians Sanders “For What It’s Worth” Treasure Williams “Nintendo” ESSAY: Shape: Introduction (with thesis statement), Body, and Conclusion Length: 500-word minimum Script: Word processor, 12 pt. font, Times New Roman, double-spaced Heading:
