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1. Explain how image and symbol reinforce theme in a poem.
2. Explain how facts about a writer's life are relevant to your understanding of a poem.
3. Explain how a poem can reflect a poet's personal psychology.
4. Explain how your own experiences affect your interpretation of a poem.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living. - Plato

1. Use pencil crayons to draw a picture of your mother's kitchen.
2. Put the oven in it, and also something green, and something dead.
3. Write a poem about your mother's kitchen.
4. You are not in this poem, but some female relation - aunt, sister, close friend - must walk into the kitchen during the course of the poem.
5. Completed poems, with a suitable image(72 dpi, png, light