Length: 750-900 words 
The word count excludes the cover page and reference list. It includes in-text references and direct quotations.

Task: Compose a 750-900-word reflective paper that examines your developing understanding of poetry through the Foundation content of the unit (weeks 1-3). Your reflection should demonstrate both personal growth and academic insight into poetic analysis.

Key Components

1. Critical Engagement
Analyse two specific moments from your learning that transformed your understanding of poetry.

These might include:

• Your response to a particular poem discussed in class
• A breakthrough in understanding poetic terminology
• An insight gained from class discussions

2. Connection
Connect your learning experiences with specific poetic concepts, vocabulary, and/or critical approaches covered in the unit. Consider how your understanding of form, tradition, and poetic language has evolved.

3. Future Application
Articulate how these insights will inform your approach to reading and analysing poetry in the remainder of the unit.

Your discussion must include a minimum of three (3) scholarly references, at least two of which must be drawn from the unit materials.

Important: Your response must refer to poets, poems, poetic vocabulary, poetic forms, from the unit material, including both the weekly study guides and unit readings.

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence agents (Gen AI)

AI Assessment Scale: Level 2

You may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas. Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity.

1. Critical Engagement and Reflection: Demonstrates critical thinking and self-awareness, using specific and meaningful examples from the Foundations content to show genuine engagement with learning.
2. Technical Understanding and Connection: Demonstrates accurate use of poetic concepts, vocabulary, and critical approaches from the unit, connecting these clearly to the specific learning experiences discussed.
3. Future Application: Articulates how the insights gained from the Foundations content will inform a developing approach to reading and analysing poetry, demonstrating forward-looking critical awareness.
4. Presentation and Referencing: Adheres to submission guidelines, including proper formatting, meeting word count requirements, clarity and fluency of expression with accurate spelling and grammar, and a minimum of three (3) scholarly references with at least two drawn from the unit materials, in Harvard (author-date) style.

Length: UP TO 1800 words total
Part A: 1000-word critical analysis
Part B: UP TO 300-word creative response (original poem)
Part C: 400-500-word critical reflection
The word count excludes the cover page and reference list. It includes in-text references and direct quotations.

Analysis and Creative Dialogue: Poetry in Practice

Part A: Critical Analysis (1000 words)
Select one poem from the list provided in Moodle.

• Analyse technical elements and contextual significance
• Identify key stylistic features and techniques
• Examine the poem's relationship to its literary-historical context
• Include a minimum of three (3) scholarly references in your analysis, at least two of which must be drawn from the unit materials.

The list is comprised of a selection of poems from weeks 4-9, representing different poetic movements (e.g., Romanticism, Harlem Renaissance, American Modernism). See Moodle site for details and the list of poems. 

Part B: Creative Response (UP TO 300 words MAX)
Compose an original poem that deliberately employs the techniques and style analysed in Part A. 

Your Original Poem:

• Length: 14-30 lines, and a maximum 300 words (no matter how many lines of poetry, you cannot exceed 300 words)
• Demonstrate the deliberate use of three technical elements from the analysed poem
• Maintain thematic or stylistic connection to the chosen movement/period

Part C: Critical Reflection (400-500 words)

• Clearly state the three poetic techniques employed
• Explain your creative decisions and their relationship to the analysed poem
• Discuss the challenges encountered, and solutions found
• Critical evaluation of the effectiveness of chosen techniques
• Use of minimum of two (2) scholarly sources in your reflection

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence agents (Gen AI)

AI Assessment Scale: Level 2

You may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas. Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity.

1. Critical Analysis: Demonstrates detailed and well-supported understanding of the chosen poem through careful close reading, appropriate technical vocabulary, and integration of historical and cultural context.
2. Creative Application: Presents an original poem that purposefully implements three identified poetic techniques from the analysed poem, maintaining thematic and/or stylistic connection to the chosen movement or period.
3. Reflective Practice: Provides thoughtful and evidence-informed reflection that clearly identifies and evaluates the three techniques employed, explains creative decision-making with reference to the analysed poem, and discusses challenges encountered and solutions found.
4. Presentation and Referencing: Adheres to submission guidelines, including proper formatting, meeting word count requirements for all parts, evidence of editing and proofreading, and a minimum of three (3) scholarly references in Part A and two (2) in Part C, with at least two of the total references drawn from the unit materials, in Harvard (author-date) style.

Length: 2000 words + references
The word count excludes the cover page and reference list. It includes in-text references and direct quotations.

Critical Perspectives in Poetry: Essay

In this 2000-word essay, you will develop a sustained critical argument in response to one of the provided questions. Your essay should demonstrate comprehensive engagement with poetic analysis, drawing on specific examples from poems studied in the unit and incorporating relevant scholarly sources (minimum five (5) scholarly sources plus referencing the poets/each poem).

Your essay must:

• Present a clear and focused argument.
• Perform advanced poetry analysis in answering your chosen topic question.
• Analyse at least two (maximum 6) poems from the unit material to answer your question. Refer to each question for specifics.
• Provide direct evidence from the poems.
• Use secondary material to support both your argument and analysis and therefore engage with a minimum of five (5) scholarly sources.
• Demonstrate sophisticated understanding of poetic techniques and their cultural/historical contexts.
• Optional: Apply appropriate theoretical frameworks to support your analysis

Choose ONE of the following questions:

1. "The personal is political" - Examine how two or three poets use personal experience to engage with broader social or political issues. Consider how poetic form and voice contribute to the intersection of individual and collective experience. (For example: you might explore works by Judith Wright, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, or other poets who bridge personal and political themes). Your choices can be from different poetic/literary periods or within the same. 

2. How do poets from different historical periods represent urban modernity and its impact on human experience? Analyse two or three poems from different time periods, examining how poetic form and imagery reflect changing perspectives on urban life. (For example: you might compare a Romantic poet's views of industrialisation with modernist urban poetry)

3. Analyse how two First Nations poets (such as Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Lionel Fogarty, or Ellen van Neerven) explore themes of Country, sovereignty, and cultural continuation in their work. For example, how do their poetic techniques and use of language (including English and/or First Nations languages) contribute to their expression of these themes? Consider one or two (1-2) poems from each poet.

4. Examine how two or three poets use traditional poetic forms (such as the sonnet, villanelle, or ghazal) to address contemporary themes or challenge conventional expectations. How does their engagement with form contribute to meaning? Choose one poem from each poet.

5. Compare representations of grief and mourning across two or three poems from different cultural or historical contexts. How do the poets' choices of imagery, form, and voice reflect distinct approaches to expressing loss? Consider how cultural and historical contexts influence these representations. 

If you wish to use a different number of poems or poets than specified in the questions, please consult the unit coordinator.

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence agents (Gen AI)

AI Assessment Scale: Level 2

You may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas. Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity.

1. Critical Analysis and Argument: Presents a clear and well-developed thesis that builds a coherent, evidence-based argument through careful analysis of the chosen poems, demonstrating independent critical thinking.
2. Textual Evidence and Close Reading: Demonstrates detailed and perceptive engagement with poetic language through close analysis of literary techniques, supported by specific and relevant textual evidence from the chosen poems.
3. Contextual and Critical Understanding: Shows well-developed understanding of relevant historical, cultural, and literary contexts, and engages with relevant critical debates and/or theoretical frameworks to demonstrate how these shape the meaning and reception of the chosen poems.
4. Comparative Analysis: Develops meaningful connections between the chosen poems, demonstrating understanding of how different poets approach similar themes or employ different techniques to achieve their effects.
5. Presentation and Referencing: Adheres to submission guidelines, including proper formatting, meeting word count requirements, evidence of editing and proofreading, and a minimum of five (5) scholarly references in Harvard (author-date) style.