Use the guidelines at this site to learn how to read a poem and understand it. A Short Guide to Close Reading for Literary Analysis might also be a useful resource for this assignment.
Source: University of Wisconsin - Madison Writing Center
Call number: PN45 .F585 2014 (ARC Library, 3rd floor)
Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface...[in this guide, author] Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths.
Source: ARC Library Catalog
Author and teacher Rebecca Hazelton writes about how anaphora "can be particularly useful in drawing student attention not only to sound but also to concrete detail, metaphor, and rhetorical movement."
Source: Poetry Foundation
View the 2012 installation of Mel Chin's, The Funk & Wag from A to Z at The Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, TX.
Source: Mel Chin's official website
"Mel Chin did a project where he took all the images from an encyclopedia set and made collages out of them. VOLUME X No. 5 Black Angel seemed to me, whether or not this was his intention, a representation of the black body’s positioning within a canonical structure."
Source: Ratik Asokan's 2014 interview with Claudia Rankine.
