Studying poetic forms can help you understand poems written in those forms. Writing formal poetry, such as a sonnet, can be a fun exercise, almost like completing a puzzle.
Try doing some research on poetic forms and see which ones appeal to you; explain what draws you to a certain form (such as a sestina or villanelle).
What do you think is the essence of good poetry?

For frederick douglass’s address, “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” (1852)1) does the speaker use fallacious reasoning or logical fallacies? use evidence from the text to support your answers. 2) how effective is the speaker’s response to counterclaims or alternate claims? use evidence from the text to support your answer

Select the correct answer. which of these lines from “the raven” by edgar allan poe to create the dark and gloomy tone of the poem? a. "'tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door— some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door; b. once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— c. "and so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, that i scarce was sure i heard you"—here i opened wide the door— d. bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, with such name as "nevermore." hurry

Read the excerpt from hemingway’s a farewell to arms. we parked the cars beyond the brickyard. the ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. there were three doctors that i knew. i talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. which best describes hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt? straightforward and simple, while still relating a lot of information to the reader long-winded and offering far too much information to the reader overly complicated, making it difficult to interpret and understand the text effortless and uncomplicated, with little meaning for the reader to interpret