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After agreeing to read papers and send comments without grades for two days, I am nearly blind from reading student work. I'm done. The real work, the actual papers, come in tomorrow. If you're a student reading this for moral support before writing, here's my best advice. Be sure you are writing about the poems themselves, not only what the poems mean. Shift your focus away from the stories presented in the poems and consider elements and technique. Be sure every literary device you mention is interpreted. It is not enough to say: Here's a metaphor! (Whoopee!) You must say what effect the metaphor has, what it suggests and why it is important.