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Poem Comparison: Shared Themes in "The Emigree" and "Checking Out Me History"

In this compare and contrast essay, the student compares and contrasts how the themes of tyranny, censorship, connection, and oppression are presented in "The Emigree" by Carol Rumens and "Checking Out Me History" by John Agard. The comparative analysis focuses on language and how the depicted themes represent the time and place historically for both poets.
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Crystal's feedback:

"Overall, you do an excellent job with staying focused on the poems and themes within them, and your analysis and comparison points are very detailed and thorough. You especially do a good job with accounting for the events of the time, potential motivations of the poets, and analyzing the language and word choices. However, the thesis is not specific enough; your thesis should establish in what ways themes are used (i.e., thesis should lay out that you will discuss tyranny, censorship, connection, and oppression). Also, make sure your topic sentences for body paragraphs fully frame focus (e.g., consider improving the topic sentence for the paragraph on connection; it only mentions one poem by name but both are discussed). Additionally, while you do a good job with keeping the conclusion concise, make sure to fully synthesize your main points -- especially, the main aspects of theme you discuss should all tied in. Other things to watch out for are unnecessary prepositional phrases (e.g., "by the poets" at end of first sentence), consistent formatting of poem titles (e.g., capitalization, check name of Agard's poem), using the same sentence structure too many times in a row, comma splice errors, and run-on sentences. Finally, your overall transitioning between paragraphs was pretty solid, but be careful in the body paragraphs to not rely on the same transitional words (e.g., also) too much, especially really close together."

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