Create your own Adventure Essay

1. Read:
2. Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken” & “Birches”
3. E.E. Cummins “In Just”
4. Stevie Smith “Not Waving but Drowning” & “To Carry the Child”
5. Philip Larkin “This be the verse”
6. Audre Lorde “Hanging Fire”
7. Sandra Cisneros “My Wicked Wicked Ways”
8. CYOA ESSAY:
9. Do a deeper dive on the background of one of the authors and share out that information and how it might impact the poem they wrote. You can do this in written format. With the prevalence of AI, you’ll need to provide source information for all author information that you find.
10. Do a deeper dive into the experience/historical background explored in the poem and talk about how it impacted the individual experience of the characters in the poem. Please provide the source information for what you learn here, too!
11. Does a poem remind you of a song or a movie or television show (Philip Larkin’s poem was featured on Ted Lasso!) offer a comparison/contrast.

Note: You do NOT need to use all of the readings. You can use one or two of the readings to do the assignment on. Then choose ONE of the CYOA essay prompts to do the assignment.