Type your response in the box. In this lesson, you will write a persuasive essay on a topic related to poetry. Pick one of these topics:
Does reading poetry make a difference in your education?
• What is the most important element in a good poem-rhyme, meter, or figurative language?
• Do poems need to be read aloud to be fully appreciated?
In your essay, you may use the poems you studied earlier in this course, which are listed below. You may also write
about other poems you have read and enjoyed.
"The Road Not Taken C" by Robert Frost
"Nothing Gold Can Stay e" by Robert Frost
"The Rose Tree by William Butler Yeats
"I'm Nobody! Who are you? C" by Emily Dickinson
"America 2" by Claude McKay
Sonnet 130 e by William Shakespeare
"Theme in Yellow e" by Carl Sandburg
Which topic did you choose? What is the argument or viewpoint that you will present in your essay?

Reread this portion of the excerpted text from common sense. men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, come, we shall be friends again for all this. but examine the passions and feelings of mankind. bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? if you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity. your future connection with britain, whom you can neither love nor honor, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. what key concept about the relationship between an abusive government and its citizens does paine want readers to understand? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one to two complete paragraphs.