Dustin+&+Joseph


 * __RESULTS:__**

How can the formal/rhetorical aspects of a poem lead to a subjective response to and a "literary" understanding of that poem?

For students to begin to read figuratively.

For students to gain confidence in their own readings of poetry.

See Frosted Flakes


 * __ASSESSMENT:__**

Students are presented with another poem which has similar rhetorical and formal aspects and are asked to respond to it in writing, or ask them to articulate their understanding of that other poem.

Students are asked whether they can present a second interpretation of "The Road Not Taken" contrary to their first interpretation.