Assessment For this assessment you must select one poem from the Virtual Poetry Museum and provide an in-depth analysis of it.
Follow these three steps to complete your assessment:
1. Select and read a poem from the Virtual Poetry Museum.
2. Fill out your Experiencing Poetry Organizer to provide your in-depth analysis.
3. Select one magazine from the options below that you believe would be a good place to publish the poem you selected. Write one
paragraph of five to seven sentences explaining why you selected that magazine for the poem. Provide supporting evidence by
using quotations from the poem to justify or support your opinion. Follow standard spelling, grammar, and punctuation rules.
Magazine Choices
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1. Love Stinks—The perfect magazine for those who have been "burned" by love and need to know they are not alone in their sadness or
bitterness

1. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act.- Be careful with your action that is why you need to plan first.
2. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.-Don't be confident and be too close to people that you can be rude to them.
3. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;It is better to have few loyal friends than to have more friends that are fake.
4. But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.- Do not be deceived by power.

5. BewareOf entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.- Be careful with fights.

6. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;-Don't share your thoughts to anyone but to those who deserve it only.
7. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement. -Listen to your opinions before taking up actions.
8. costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;For the apparel oft proclaims the man, - You can be judged by the way you wear clothes but you need to be less materialistic.
9. And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. - Attitude is important so be simple but beautiful.
10. For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.- Be careful on borrowing money from others and lending your money because it can affect you and the person who borrowed your money.
11. This above all: to thine ownself be true,And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- Be true to yourself.