CSUGC Aunt Helen Thirteen Lined Poem the Life of A Departed Woman Discussion

Explication

The poem you select must be sophisticated enough to sustain a detailed analysis.

Poem: Eliot, T. S. (2019). Aunt Helen. Retrieved fromhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/br… (Original workpublished 1915)

• Analyze one or more of the poem’s elements.
  • Your explication is not a summary of what the poem is about. Nor are you expected to unravel the poem’s “meaning.” Rather, you are explaining how the poet used a particular poetic element, and you are analyzing how that element affects the rest of the poem.
• Include a thesis statement that states the element you are analyzing and why.
• Follow a systematic writing pattern by analyzing the element on which you are focusing line-by-line or stanza-by-stanza.
• Provide textual examples (words, phrases, and lines) from the poem to illustrate your analytical statements

Writing Requirements

• Should be 2 pages in length (not counting the title page and references page)
• Minimum of two scholarly references in addition to the course textbook (The CSU Global Library is a good place to find these references.)
• Use template paper located in the module folder
• Follow correct APA guidelines found in CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.) with regard to the following:
  • Font style and size
  • Margins and spacing
  • Cover page with a running header
• Reference page (Cite primary and secondary sources.)