Literary Analysis Assignments
- All's Fair in Love and War
- Young Black Men and Terror, poems by Jericho Brown
- Common Themes in The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- Need for Approval: Jericho Brown's "As A Human Being" and "Hero"
- Exploring the Myth of Leda and the Swan: William Butler Yeats and Jericho Brown
- "Ganymede" by Jericho Brown
- Theme: Conflicts with Fathers - Lucille Clifton's "forgiving my father" and Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
- Theme: Parents and Children
- Multiplicity of Meanings: Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"
- Themes of Marginalized People: "Gentleness Stirred" by Nimah Nawwab and "On the Amtrak from Boston to New York" by Sherman Alexie
- Imagery of Dust: Robert Morgan - "Ghosts in the Carpet" and "Church Dust"
- Christian Belief and Practice: Ron Rash's "Revival" and "White Wings," and Robert Morgan's "The Gift of Tongues"
- Appalachian Men and Women: "Pocketknives" by Ron Rash and "Canning Time" by Robert Morgan
- Death and Decay: The Poems of Robert Morgan
- Appalachia: The Poems of Ron Rash
- The Human World Revealed through Nature in the Poems of Ron Rash
- Elegy: "Nov 22, 1988" and "Billionaire of Life" by Ishmael Reed
- Ishmael Reed and Wallace Stevens: "Tennessee's Revenge" and "Anecdote of the Jar"
- Ars Poetica: Ishmael Reed
- Poetry as Mirror: "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem" by Ishmael Reed
- Satire and the Dramatic Monologue
- Ishmael Reed: Perspectives on Love
- American Economic Woes
- Environmental Themes: Ishmael Reed
- Cityscapes: Ishmael Reed and Poems of Place
- Suicide and Irony
- Parental Reflections on Children Growing Up
- Gender Struggles
- How to Understand Poetry
