Assignment:
Write an essay of 750 words in which your thesis expresses an idea expressed in one of the poems listed below. Be sure that your essay has an unambiguous thesis and a clear organizational plan with topic sentences in each body paragraph. Be sure to use quotations from the poem you select to support the assertions that you make. Only three people will be allowed to write on any single poem, so I will distribute a signup sheet on Friday, March 6.

Poems:
Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken" or "Desert Places"
Emily Dickinson: "I Heard a Fly Buss When I Died"
Walt Whitman: "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" or "I Saw a Live-Oak Growing"
Edna St. Vincent Millay: "I Think I Shold Have Loved You Presently"
e.e. cummings: "anyone lived in a pretty how town" or "next to of course god america i"
Robert Lowell: "For the Union Dead"
Herman Melville: "A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight"
Richard Brautigan: "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"(p. 1) or "The Galilee Hitch-Hiker" (pp. 52-60)
Conor Oberst: "Landlocked Blues"