Week Five

Dear Students,

Below is the link to the tutorial for reading Humanimal. It should help you complete the Journal 4 and Poetry Analysis that were due Wednesday, April 1 (see Week Four). The new deadline is April 7th. This deadline is crucial for anyone looking for feedback in preparation for the essay. Essay 1 is due at the end of spring break, and it is a formal, full essay poetry analysis with research.

The video format turned out to be really unmanageable, so I created this tutorial to help you read Humanimal instead:

Literary Terms II: Reading Contemporary Poetry

Reading: 

Bhanu Kapil, Humanimal: “Humanimal 2”  (30-65) 

Sarah Dowling, “They Were Girls: Animality and Poetic Voice in Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal

(p.736-743)

Homework Due:

Journal 4 link to prompt and link to Blackboard journals where you will submit the assignment.

Poetry analysis handout again. Choose a poem from Humanimal, or Blood Dazzler and perform an analysis using the poetry analysis handout. Your journal assignment is to produce notes for a possible essay. That is, complete the steps in the handout, and write in complete sentences, but you are not required to choose a thesis. Do complete the steps, including step 8, and list 2-3 possible thesis statements. Turn in your poetry analysis here. If you have struggled with this, do not worry. I will post more information on Week 5 and you can write your analysis after that.