“The Power of Shifting Tones: A Comparative Analysis of Poems on Diverse Themes”

Write an analytical essay, demonstrating competency in logic, analysis, organization, grammar, clarity and MLA format.
Choose one of the following topics on which to write your analytical essay.  
Choose any two poems from the assigned list that express positive and negative feelings about their topics by using shifting tones. Write an essay in which you compare the way each poet accomplishes this shifting of tone. 
Compare the “I” in Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise with the “I” in Walt Whitman’s I Celebrate Myself.
Analyze how Linda Pastan’s poem Marks challenges and mocks its central metaphor.
In Dylan Thomas’ poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, we experience “rage against the dying of the light.”  Contrast this with the rage you find in Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy.  Focus on the source of emotion in both poems.
Write an essay on the themes of Langston Hughes’ poem Harlem.
Pick the poem in the list of assigned poems that you like the most and the one you like least. Write an essay comparing your reactions to the two poems and exploring why and how the poems provoke those disparate reactions. What role do the poem’s tones and themes play? Here’s the hitch:  YOU CANNOT USE THE WORD “I” IN THIS ESSAY!
The essay should: 
be 2-4 pages in length;
be double-spaced and in 12-point font;
include direct quotations from the poem;
include quotations from outside, secondary sources;
put all citations into MLA format;
include a Works Cited page;
avoid grammatical errors and plot summary;
Dorothy Parker, A Certain Lady
Walt Whitman, I Celebrate Myself
Maya Angelou, Still I Rise
Andrew Hudgins, Begotten
William Blake, London
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Sharon Olds, Sex Without Love
Gwendolyn Brook, We Real Cool
Langston Hughes, Harlem
William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us
Linda Pastan, Marks
Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and The Road Not Taken
William Shakespeare, My mistress’ eyes …
Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night
Sylvia Plath, Daddy