Type your response in the box. In this lesson, you will write a persuasive essay on a topic related to poetry. Pick one of these topics:
Does reading poetry make a difference in your education?
• What is the most important element in a good poem-rhyme, meter, or figurative language?
• Do poems need to be read aloud to be fully appreciated?
In your essay, you may use the poems you studied earlier in this course, which are listed below. You may also write
about other poems you have read and enjoyed.
"The Road Not Taken C" by Robert Frost
"Nothing Gold Can Stay e" by Robert Frost
"The Rose Tree by William Butler Yeats
"I'm Nobody! Who are you? C" by Emily Dickinson
"America 2" by Claude McKay
Sonnet 130 e by William Shakespeare
"Theme in Yellow e" by Carl Sandburg
Which topic did you choose? What is the argument or viewpoint that you will present in your essay?