Essay for ENG 213: 21st century and everything before Source Material: Reading resources in Units 1 through 5 Viewing resources in Units 1 through 5 Background: You have read, viewed, and discussed resources on different genres and eras of poems and poets as well as resources on how compare and contrast topics effectively. Now, it is time to combine those two subjects into one assignment. Prompt: Choose a poet from the 21st century and compare his/her poems and writing styles to a poet that was presented in Units 1 through 4. Task: Choose a poet that is presented in Unit 5 (Miranda, Angelou, Heaney, Collins). Choose a poet in that is presented in Units 1 through 4. Use the resources available in all the units on writing styles, devices, imagery, and history to create a plan for similarities and differences in your chosen authors’ poems and in their writing styles. You will be writing a 2-3 page essay that analyzes these similarities and differences. Be sure to include a supporting section that addresses similarities and differences in the poems (theme, subjects, structure, rhyme scheme) as well as a section that addresses the writing styles (use of imagery and poetic devices). Instructions: Analyze the two poets and their poems for similarities and differences in the poems and in the authors’ writing styles. Write a 2-3 page essay with a thesis statement that asserts your main answer to the prompt. Use ideas, paraphrases, and quotes from both stories to support your own ideas. Be sure to format these citations according to APA formatting guidelines. Your audience for this response will be people who have read the poems but not compared and contrasted the elements. This will eliminate the need to summarize or add plot-heavy detail. Compare & Contrast: 21st Century and Everything Before ENG213—Poetry Requirements: Your response should be 2-3 pages. Your response should have a properly APA formatted title page. Your response should have properly formatted in-text citations. Your response should have a properly formatted reference page It should also be double spaced, written in Times New Roman, in 12 point font and with 1 inch margins. Use the third-person, objective voice, avoiding personal pronouns such as “I,” “you,” “we,” etc. Please be cautious about plagiarism. Make sure to use internal citations for direct quotes, paraphrases, and new information. Students: Be sure to read before you write, and again after you write. Rubric for Compare and Contrast of Poets and Poems Does Not Meet Expectatio ns 0-11 Below Expectatio ns 12-13 Needs Improveme nt 14-15 Satisfactory 16-17 Meets Expectatio ns 18-20 Thesis Statement (Controlling Idea) Thesis is not present. Thesis is confusing, vague or unclear. Thesis is loosely related to the paper or not present. Thesis is attempted with little .