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Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating Donne's "Break of Day."

Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating Donne's "A Hymn to God the Father."

Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating Donne's "Love's Deity."

Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating Browning's "My Last Duchess."

Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating Donne's "The Indifferent."

Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating William Carlos Williams's "The Widow's Lament in Springtime."

Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating Tennyson's "Ulysses."

Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

The questions to ask of any poem: speaker, audience, occasion, setting, purpose, theme, and more.

Lesson plan on the five steps of close reading, applied to Donne's "Break of Day" and Larkin's "A Study of Reading Habits."

Lesson plan on analogy in poetry, with Adrienne Rich's "Storm Warnings" and a poem by Emily Dickinson.

Lesson plan for close reading Wordsworth's sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us."