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None of the prompts are original to me, but are Advanced Placement® English Literature and Composition Exam prompts. This is my best effort to comply with College Board’s use requirements.  \n1970 Poem: “Elegy for Jane”(Theodore Roethke)  \nPrompt: Write an essay in which you describe the speaker’s attitude toward his former student, Jane.  \nElegy for Jane by Theodore Roethke  \nI remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;  \nAnd her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;  \nAnd how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped for her, And she balanced in the delight of her thought,  \n5 A wren, happy, tail into the wind,  \nHer song trembling the twigs and small branches.  \nThe shade sang with her;  \nThe leaves, their whispers turned to kissing,  \nAnd the mould sang in the bleached valleys under the rose.  \n10 Oh, when she was sad, she cast herself down into such a pure depth, Even a father could not find her:  \nScraping her cheek against straw,  \nStirring the clearest water.  \nMy sparrow, you are not here,  \n15 Waiting like a fern, making a spiney shadow.  \nThe sides of wet stones cannot console me,  \nNor the moss, wound with the last light.  \nIf only I could nudge you from this sleep,  \nMy maimed darling, my skittery pigeon.  \n20 Over this damp grave I speak the words of my love:  \nI, with no rights in this matter,  \nNeither father nor lover.  \n1971 Poem: “The Unknown Citizen”(W.H. Auden)  \nPrompt: In a brief essay, identify at least two of the implications implicit in the society reflected in the poem. Support your statements by specific references to the poem.  \nThe Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden  \nHe was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be  \nOne against whom there was no official complaint,  \nAnd all the reports on his conduct agree  \nThat, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint, 5 For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.  \nExcept for the War till the day he retired  \nHe worked in a factory and never got fired,  \nBut satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.  \nYet he wasn’t a scab or odd in his views,  \n10 For his Union reports that he paid his dues,(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)  \nAnd our Social Psychology workers found  \nThat he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.  \nThe Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day  \n15 And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.  \nPolicies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,  \nAnd his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured.  \nBoth Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare  \nHe was fully sensible to the advantages of the Installment Plan  \n20 And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,  \nA phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.  \nOur researchers into Public Opinion are content  \nThat he held the proper opinions for the time of year;  \nWhen there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.  \n25 He was married and added five children to the population,  \nWhich our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.  \nAnd our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.  \nWas he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:  \nHad anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.  \n1974 Poem: from “Prologue: Downstream” by Thomas Kinsella (Not given on exam)  \nPrompt: Read the following poem carefully and then write a unified essay in which you relate the imagery of the last stanza to the speaker’s view of himself earlier in the poem and to his view of how others see poets.  \nI wonder whether one expects (25) The sunl","cbCaikIkFwMaAweC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikIkFwMaAweC","pdf",2103651,74,"English","# AP English Literature Poetry Essay Prompts\n## Overview and update information\n## 1970 prompts and poem excerpts\n## 1971 prompts and poem excerpts\n## 1974 prompt and poem excerpt","[{\"question\":\"What does the document provide for each included poem?\",\"answer\":\"Each poem is paired with an AP English Literature essay prompt that instructs what to write and what to analyze, followed by the poem excerpt printed on separate pages for classroom use.\"},{\"question\":\"What is one example of an essay prompt style used in the list?\",\"answer\":\"The prompts may ask for an essay describing a speaker’s attitude toward a former student or for a unified essay connecting the imagery of a stanza to the speaker’s earlier self-view and how others see poets.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the document handle trademark and endorsement requirements?\",\"answer\":\"It includes a notice stating that Advanced Placement is a trademark registered by the College Board and that the College Board is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, the website providing the materials.\"}]","AP Lit Poetry Prompts with Poems | PDF",1790087127,26]