Identify the key symbol(s) or metaphor(s) within the work.

• Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” (p. 387)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “How Do I Love Thee” (p. 662)
• Robert Burns, “Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose” (p. 662)
• E. E. Cummings, “In Just-” (p. 458)
• E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled” (p. 684)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar,  “We Wear the Mask” (p. 574)
• Seamus Heaney, “Digging” (p. 715)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall” (p. 724)
• Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (p. 730)
• Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It” (p. 521)
• Archibald MacLeish, “Ars Poetica” (p. 579)
• Pablo Neruda, “Muchos Somos” (p. 548)
• Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” (p. 770)
• William Shakespeare, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” (p. 793)
• Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning” (p. 311)
• Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar” (p. 487)
• William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” (p. 500)
• William Butler Yeats, “When You are Old” (p. 838)

Question

 

Choose one poem from among those you were assigned this week. Post a response of at least 150 words.

• Discuss how symbols or metaphors are used in the poem you chose for this assignment.
• Identify the key symbol(s) or metaphor(s) within the work. 
• Explain the meanings they convey to readers.
• How do these elements enrich the poem and deepen your understanding o