Personal Poetry Anthology

AP English Literature and Composition

Personal Poetry Anthology

Due:
1. Email me your theme over vacation.
2. Bring typed copies of seven of the fifteen poems to class on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 (the epiphany, twelfth night)
3. Bring a draft of one of your own poems to class on Monday, January 12, 2009
4. Bring a draft of the introduction to class on Monday, January 12, 2009
5. Completed project is due Friday, January 16, 2009 (no extension letters will be accepted)

Theme: ___________________________________

For this assignment, you will prepare a poetry anthology. For our purposes, poetry will include song lyrics. The anthology will be unified by a common theme, and must consist of the following minimal requirements:

Criteria

1. A late sixteenth or seventeenth

century poem (Elizabethan,

Metaphysical, Cavalier)

2. A nineteenth century poem

(Romantic, Gothic, Victorian)

3. A twentieth century poem

(modern or post-modern)

4. A twenty-first century poem

(post-modern)

5. Lyrics to song
6. A sonnet (or poem written in

another traditional form: sestina,

terza rima, rondeau, villanelle, etc.)

7. A poem translated

from another language

8. A poem that you have written

containing an allusion

9. A poem that you have written

using a traditional or invented form

10. A poem that you have written

that is a strict, loose, or homophonic translation

11. A poem that you have written

in any form

12. Free choice
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You must include:

1. A title page with MLA information (See Compass page 54.)
2. A dedication and epigraph page
3. An introduction (300-500 words introducing the theme, briefly explaining the relationship between the poems and the theme, and reflecting upon the theme.)
4. A table of contents with titles and authors
5. A minimum of fifteen (15) separate poems/songs.
6. A Works Cited page, including discography (MLA format See Compass page 56-58)

You may include:

1. More of your own poems
2. Illustrations and/or photograph (Art taken from other sources much be cited)
3. More than one song lyric
4. A mixed-CD/mixed-tape with the song(s) and poems