Literary Analysis of Poetry
Order Description
For this essay, analyze three poems. The three poems are “Death be not proud” by John Donne, ” On the Late Massacre in Piedmont” by John Milton, and “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. These three poems share a central common theme: Death. This essay will consist of an analysis of the theme.
1. Divide essay into multiple paragraphs (minimum 5)
2. Must include these words in essay – poetry, sonnet, Iambic Pentameter, metaphor, structure, line, stanza, setting, rhyme scheme, concrete diction, abstract diction, high or formal diction, modernism, imagery, tone, satire, closed form, rhyme, quatrain, symbolism, theme, speaker, symbol, meter (poetry definition), foot (poetry definition), victorian, denotation, cannotation, octave, sestet. Please do not give me the definition of these vocabulary.