Does anyone know a good poem for interpretation? I am doing an intrepretation for my English 101 class?

Question

My intrepretation is due next Tuesday and I could really use someones help in finding just the right poem and poet for this assignment. Thanks~

Answer 1

"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe is always good. It is so open to different interpretations that it is near impossible to get a bad grade if you make any effort at all. The Shakespeare (I think) about the Rose works too, just choose a side...is he writing to his gay lover, female lover, or to no one but the person in his mind..then make a plausible argument for your choice.

Answer 2

LEGION


Shall I sing to you of streetcars
passing their meridians
under office towers burning
cold and fierce?

Beneath a sky
stretched drum tight.

Gypsy stars flashing
in a manic Cosmo dialect

Past underage prophets
at the late-show crucifixions
Their cigarette screams
punctuating the still night air

Past wounded saints,
knights left
wandering in their secret languages,
braced against the clear passage of winter
In cardboard castles
And stinking blanket armor.

Wrapped like chains around a doorway
as we glide by
like tourists at the zoo

Answer 3

I would try He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats. I think it's short and to the point, leaving just enough room for an interpretation.

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread upon my dreams."

Answer 4

How about "Patterns," which if I remember right is by Amy Lowell. It's a rather long Victorian poem but still has meaning for today.

Answer 5

The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. It always gets people's attention and a few laughs.

http://www.wordnews.info/Organized-SamMcGee.html

Answer 6

what's that one by robert frost, i think? the one with the 2 roads? u prolli know the one i'm talking about, if not u should look it up- it is a classic when it comes to interpreting poems.

Answer 7

maya angelou stuff is fun