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Outline
- Introduction
- Read poem aloud
- Ask for initial response
- When do you think this poem was written?
- What is the overall message?
- Address title
- Lead into Biographical information
- Read biography while elaborating on aspects of his life not included in the biography
- Significant contributions to poetry and African American culture
- Introduce association with a literary movement
- Literary Analysis of Poem
- Go through the literary analysis of the poem
- Main literary devices
- Diction
- Imagery
- Tone
- Repetition
- Style
- Punctuation
- Irony
- Rhyme scheme
- Address audience, tone, and purpose
- Draw similarities to other works
- Critical Analysis
- Helpful Links
- Activity
- Robert Frost
- Replacing Words
- A. E. Housman
- Conclude
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