Ezra Pound: Poems Lesson Plan

Preparing for Essay Writing: Analyzing Form and Content

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will practice skills necessary to combine analysis of form and content in order to highlight a central theme of the text.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2

Structure:

Part 1:

Students should choose one section of “Mauberley” Part 1 to focus on for this activity. Any section that is several stanzas long is acceptable (all except Section V and “Brennbaum”).

Part 2: Content Analysis

Next, students should answer the following questions about this section:

1. What is this section “about”? What is its emotional...