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Read these poems and think about summarizing the ideas as you try to figure out what these short texts are saying: When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman http://www.bartleby.com/142/180.html Girl by Jamaica Kincaid http://www.my-island-jamaica.com/girl_by_jamaica_kincaid.html Bar Napkin Sonnet #11 by Moira Egan https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/49272 During Wind and Rain by Thomas Hardy https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/52314 What we will be doing in this class is making meaning out of famous and great pieces of literary writing. Writing Assignment for Tuesday, January 10: Due 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, or there will be a late penalty. Write a separate summary and analysis for each of these 4 poems, noting any ideas that stand out for you in these four poems. 1 page each