Blog assignment for Wednesday

Please read all the poems from the Low East handout for Wednesday. Choose one poem and conduct a close reading of that poem in your blog response, to be posted by 8pm Tuesday. If there are references to specific people, places, or events in the poems, please look them up online and try to determine what they are.

Include in your blog post the following elements:

1. Point out characteristics of the poem that you see reflected in Henderson's other poems. In other words, mention similarities having to do with sound, vocab, theme, etc. between the poem you've chosen and the rest of the poems in the handout.
2. Examine the poem's sounds (rhythm; moments of assonance, consonance or rhyme; the overall musicality of the poem; the effects, emotional or otherwise, of the poem's sound) 
3. Examine the poem's structure (What different forms does it use?--poetic stanzas, dialogue, prose paragraphs, etc. What is the effect of using these specific forms in the poem?)
4. Examine the poem's topics (What's Henderson writing about?)
5. Give your own analysis (Why is the topic important to Henderson? What are it's social/political/philosophical implications? How do the sounds, structure and topic all work together to illuminate a particular idea or set of ideas?)