Poetry Paper Julia Alvarez’s Bilingual Sestina

?Read these supplementary documents on writing about poetry:
?How to Quote Poetry in a Paper (different rules from drama!)
?How to Explicate a Poem
?Sample Poetry Explication

?Your job is to explicate a poem to make a cogent statement about the poem’s theme. Choose one of the following poems from your textbook for your assignment:

Cathy Song’s Stamp Collecting
Julia Alvarez’s Bilingual Sestina
Judith Ortiz Cofer’s "The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica"
Timothy Murphy’s Case Notes
Dana Gioia’s Planting a Sequoia
Sharon Olds’ The One Girl at the Boys Party
Ted Kooser’s Abandoned Farmhouse