poem essay
Hello I need help with my essay.
Here is the PROMPT: Write an approximately 1,000-word essay in which you demonstrate your
close reading skills with a poem.
ESSAY COMPONENTS: Your essay should be based solely on your own close reading
and interpretation of a poem or short story. No outside sources are allowed. Please use
standard MLA formatting.
Title: Create a clever and/or descriptive title. I love a good title, so please do
NOT title your essay, “Close Reading Essay.”
Epigraph: Begin your essay with an epigraph, which is a full quote of the short
passage (or stanzas) you will focus on.
Introduction and Thesis Statement:
o Your first paragraph should introduce the poem/short story as a whole to
the reader. Try to keep summary to a bare minimum, and assume that
your reader is already familiar with the story/poem.
o Your thesis statement (typically the last sentence of the first paragraph)
makes an interpretive claim about the poem/story that grows out of your
close reading of a short section of the text.
Detailed Close Reading Section: This is the most
……..answer preview…..
To live in the borderlands means you
Are neither hispanaindianegraespanola
nigabacha, eres mestiza, mulata, half-breed
Caught in the crossfire between camps
While carrying all five races on your back
Not knowing which side to……
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