AP Literature Exam Free Response Question

Throughout the course of the year we have read novels and plays that share common literary themes: love & hate, good & evil, the question of truth, fate & freewill, the meaning of greatness, the nature of justice, the clashing of cultures, tradition vs. modernity, and man vs. nature.  These common themes are also present in the AP Literature Exam's Free Response Questions.  Choose one novel or play that we have read and explain why you think it is the most relevant novel to study in AP Literature.  In what ways does it meet multiple themes and how does its universality apply to a multitude of possible response questions?

Schedules for poetry presentations:

Monday, April 16
 Rosie "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson

Brittany "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop

Kyle "1861" by Walt Whitman

Kristina "Into My Own" by Robert Frost

Tuesday, April 17

Mitchell  "I Crave Your Mouth" by Pablo Neruda

McKenzie  "When I Consider How my Light is Spent" by John Milton

Wednesday, April 18

Crystal  " Poison Tree" by William Blake.

Chaz  "Tears Idle Tears"  by Lord Alfred Tennyson

Connor "To An Athlete Dying Young" by AE Housman

Ian "Ballad of the Goodly Fere" by Ezra Pound

Thursday, April 19

Christine "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

Becca  "Do they have a reason?" by Stephen Dobyns

Jacob "Alone With Everybody" by Charles Bukowski

April IS Poetry Month

I cannot think of a better way to begin the month of April than poetry.  Hopefully you have been thinking about a poet or a few poets from the classroom text or maybe others you have been introduced to in other classes.  Your final project for AP Lit. will be the completion of a research project reflecting the background information on a poet and a poem that you will analyze.  In about two weeks we will begin presentations and you will have built some confidence and mastery of poetry going into the AP exam. Similar to the novel project, I want you to have fun with the assignment, but please choose a poem with literary merit.  I will have final say on what is or isn't appopriate for this assignment. Please post your ideas below.

Here are some suggestions to get you started if you are still searching:
William Wordsworth
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Blake
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Thomas Hardy
A.E. Housman
William Butler Yeats
Rita Dove
Carl Sandburg
Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman
Gwendolyn Brooks
Sylvia Plath
Pablo Neruda
Anne Bradstreet
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nikki Giovanni
Billy Collins
Elizabeth Bishop
Ezra Pound