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SPECIAL  ASSIGNMENT

Each of you will find a poem of substance that is special to you. You will be videotaped explaining what the poem is about, what you like about it in terms of meaning and method, and why it holds special significance to you. In addition to turning in a typed and carefully proofread copy, you will save the poem and explantion on a floppy disk or CD until we publish an edition of the class's favorite poems in the last marking period.

Requirements for printed version

 

The printed version of your project should contain the following and be set up in the following way:

 

For visual consistency your work should

 

• have 1 inch margins
• be in 12 point font
• be printed in New Times Roman

 

The poem should come first.

It should be single spaced in 12 point font.

Put the title at the top and, underneath, indent 5 spaces, and type the poet's name. See the example below.

 

 

Nothing Gold Can Stay

     By Robert Frost

 

After the title and author, skip a space and type the poem

After the poem, double space and put your name in bold.

Then single space and start your write up in double space, 12 point font with the same 1 inch margins.

 

See the example below :

Nothing Gold Can Stay

     By Robert Frost

 

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

 

Billy Bovine

 

I first read Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” in my sophomore English class when we were studying American poets. I have always liked Robert Frost because of the way he seems to talk to the reader in an easy-going style about subjects that deal with nature.