ENGL210 – 4
Spring 2009
Instructor: Lily Rabinoff-Goldman

Craft Response Essay

Choose 1 poem that we read in class this semester (from the packet, in-class handout, or the textbook).  Write a 1-2 page, double-spaced paper analyzing a craft element of that poem using the following guidelines.

Craft Response Essays should focus on one of three things: 
1) the way a particular craft element discussed in class is being put to use; 
2) why and how a particular image, phrase, line, etc., really struck you, and why/how it’s effective; or 
3) any craft-based question the poem or story raised for you. 

Craft Response Essays are not to be summaries of what the story or poem was about, nor litanies of what the poem or story reminded you of from your own life.  Rather these papers should engage critically with something we have read, asking the question “how/why did the author do that?” Craft Response Essays will be graded.