Write an 5-7 page essay analyzing 3 poems or (2 poems and an essay) about the subject of nature. The poets/essayists you select should have observed nature and concluded in their work a better or preferable way humans should live based on nature’s wisdom. Your essay will analyze how their works deliver a unifying message, but point up the contrasts in how they express this message. You must select poems and essays from the recommended AP reading list. Poets: W. H. Auden; Elizabeth Bishop; William Blake; Anne Bradstreet; Edward Kamau Brathwaite; Gwendolyn Brooks; Robert Browning; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Lorna Dee Cervantes; Geoffrey Chaucer; Lucille Clifton; Samuel Taylor coleridge; Billy Collins; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle); Emily Dickinson; John Donne; Rita Dove; Paul Laurence Dunbar; T.S. Eliot; Robert Frost; Joy Harjo; Seamus Heaney; George Herbert; Garret Hongo; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Langston Hughes; Ben Jonson; John Keats; Philip Larkin; Robert Lowell; Andrew Marvell; John Milton; Marianne Moore; Sylvia Plath; Edgar Allan Poe; Alexander Pope; Adrienne Rich; Anne Sexton; William Shakespeare; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Leslie Marmon Silko; Cathy Song; Wallace Stevens; Alfred Lord Tennyson; Derek Walcott; Walt Whitman; Richard Wilbur; William Carlos Williams; William Wordsworth; William Butler Yeats
Use the websites https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ and https://www.poets.org/ both are excellent databases for finding poems on the recommended list.
Essayists: Joseph Addison; Gloria Anzaldua; Matthew Arnold; James Baldwin; James Boswell; Jesus Colon; Joan Didion; Frederick Douglass; W. E. B. Du Bois; Ralph Waldo Emerson; William Hazlitt; Rachel Carson; Samuel Johnson; Charles Lamb; Thomas Macaulay; Mary McCarthy; John Stuart Mill; George Orwell; Michael Pollan; Richard Rodriguez; Edward Said; Lewis Thomas; Henry David Thoreau; E. B. White; Virginia Woolf
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