Write an essay in which you examine both the historical significance and the aesthetic achievement of a poem from our readings. To help you get started, read through the Discussion on the poems for this week and note when students are writing about both these things. For our purposes, we will define aesthetic achievement as how a poem means on its ownthe elements that make it up, and the response from you that it encourages. For historical significance, think about how the poem speaks from its own time. While it may seem relevant to our own moment, it comes from another moment.
