If you missed either Tuesday's or Wednesday's overview of the upcoming Reader Response Poetry Essay, see this Sample Reflective Response Essay. Although the writer is using a song for this response, you can see a strategy for setting up your analysis. The one thing you do NOT need to do is use the headers (the instructor is using these to show the role of each paragraph in the essay, but the transitions at the start of each paragraph should provide the logical connection, suggesting what that paragraph is doing in the essay). This is a somewhat informal essay, but that is fine because you are using first-person perspective.
Warning: This essay is incomplete, so it does not actually get into the full analysis. Make sure that in working your way through the poem, you do NOT just give the equivalent of a synopsis--simply retelling the reader what the poem says--literally. It should be your REACTION to the poem and its various elements that make up your analysis, with a general overall assessment of the poem as it applies to YOU, not me, not students, not scholars, but YOU.
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