poem essay

Hello I need help with my essay.

Here is the PROMPT: Write an approximately 1,000-word essay in which you demonstrate your

close reading skills with a poem.

ESSAY COMPONENTS: Your essay should be based solely on your own close reading

and interpretation of a poem or short story. No outside sources are allowed. Please use

standard MLA formatting.

Title: Create a clever and/or descriptive title. I love a good title, so please do

NOT title your essay, “Close Reading Essay.”

Epigraph: Begin your essay with an epigraph, which is a full quote of the short

passage (or stanzas) you will focus on.

Introduction and Thesis Statement:

o Your first paragraph should introduce the poem/short story as a whole to

the reader. Try to keep summary to a bare minimum, and assume that

your reader is already familiar with the story/poem.

o Your thesis statement (typically the last sentence of the first paragraph)

makes an interpretive claim about the poem/story that grows out of your

close reading of a short section of the text.

Detailed Close Reading Section: This is the most

……..answer preview…..

To live in the borderlands means you

Are neither hispanaindianegraespanola

nigabacha, eres mestiza, mulata, half-breed

Caught in the crossfire between camps

While carrying all five races on your back

Not knowing which side to……

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