Personal Poetry Anthology Project

AP English Literature and Composition

Personal Poetry Anthology
Completed project is due Friday, February 17, 2012

Theme: ___________________________________

For this assignment, you will prepare a poetry anthology. For our purposes, poetry will include song lyrics. The anthology will be unified by a common theme, and must consist of the following minimal requirements:

Criteria                                                                                                    Title of Poem (Author of Poem)

1. A late sixteenth or seventeenth                        >

century poem (Elizabethan,

Metaphysical, Cavalier)

2.  A nineteenth century poem                             >

(Romantic, Gothic, Victorian)

3.  A twentieth century poem                               >

(modern or post-modern)

4. A twenty-first century poem                             >

(post-modern)

5. Lyrics to song                                                     >

6. A sonnet (or poem written in                          >

another traditional form: sestina,

terza rima, rondeau, villanelle, etc.)

7. A poem translated                                             >

from another language

8. A poem that you have written                                >

containing an allusion**

9. A poem that you have written                                >

using a traditional or invented form**

10. A poem that you have written                              >

that is a strict, loose, or homophonic translation*

11. A poem that you have written                              >

in any form

12. Free choice                                                        >

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You must include

a. A title page with title and MLA information (your name, my name, course, date) 

b. A dedication and epigraph page

c. An introduction (500-1000 words introducing the theme, explaining the relationship between the poems and the theme, and reflecting upon the theme) or a shorter introduction (300 words) with annotations of the poems.

d. A table of contents with titles, authors, and the criteria fulfilled by each poem

e. A minimum of fifteen (15) separate poems/songs. (See requirements above.)

f. A works cited page, including discography (MLA format)

You may include

a. More of your own poems, more translations, more poems in any category

b. Illustrations and/or photograph (Art taken from other sources much be cited)

c. A mixed-CD/mixed-tape with the song(s) and poems

d. Other

*Note: Make sure you include the original text of the poem you have translated (in the original language).

 **Note: Make sure that within the poem or within an accompanying comment that the allusion in the allusion poem and the form of the formal poem are clear to the reader.

Other notes:
Poem writing ideas from Mr. James Cook and Mac Hutchinson class of '2011 (the Macku). 
Help finding 21st century poems and a few more poetry writing exercises.
Help writing the introduction.
Mr. James Cook's introduction.
Help citing works.