Help, i need help on finding a good poem by an American poet that i can memorize and do a analysis!!???

Question

Any suggestions??????
It needs to be atleast 20 lines with 6 words, or something proportional to that???
Any Suggestions????? Pleeezz

Answer 1

I did this one in high school and loved it. It is a very interesting topic and you can definitely do a lot of analyisis on it!



ANNABEL LEE


by Edgar Allan Poe
(1849)


It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;--
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
She was a child and I was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
I and my Annabel Lee--
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
Chilling my Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me:--
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling
And killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:--

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the side of the sea.

Answer 2

I suggest doing an Emily Dickenson poem. A lot of her poems are easy to memorize because you can sing the lyrics to the tune of Gilligan's Island (you really can-- try it). For example... "Ample Make This Bed." I've memorized many of her poems just for the hell of it... some of them are short though, and probably not 20 lines. Sylvia Plath might be good, too. Like "Daddy"... although that might be kind of long, but easy to memorize! (You do not do, you do not do, any more black shoe, in which I have lived like a foot for thirty years or more barely daring to breathe or achoo!)

Answer 3

Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken". A masterpiece with lessons for all of us - regrets for decisions taken and the wondering of what would have happened had we gone another way. The poem is not long, and the visualizations make it easy to remember.

Answer 4

Robert Frost:
'Death Of The Hired Man'
'Mending Wall'
'A Swinger Of Birches'

Answer 5

I'd start with Carl Sandburg. I still have lines from his poems running through my head: "the fog comes in on little cat feet....." or Chicago, city of big shoulders. . .I think if you could find a book of his poetry you could find a poem that suits your specifications.