Paraphrasing a poem

[aaron.c678]

OK, first you have to answer a couple of questions.  How long have you had the assignment?  Have you asked your teacher for help?  And why have you been given this particular poem to look at?  Is it part of a unit on a specific theme, or did your teacher just throw it at you without explanation?  Oh, and how many words does this paraphrasing have to be?

In order to help you with your assignment -- and more importantly, help you to understand why poetry is worth understanding -- we need to know what you have to achieve here.

He assigned it yesterday. So far we read three poems, this one and two others. I chose this because it was shorter. Below is the assignment. It's basically for participation points.

Choose a poem and present it to the class. You must include the following in your presentation:

1. a reading of the poem
2. a paraphrase of the poem—either line by line or stanza by stanza
3. an interpretation of the poem