The poem is called “I Sit and Sew” The poem need to be analyze with the style of “New Criticism”

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New Critics focused their attention on the variety and degree of certain literary devices, specifically metaphor, irony, tension, and paradox. The New Critics emphasized “close reading” as a way to engage with a text, and paid close attention to the interactions between form and meaning.
interpret the poem as if you were a (New Critic).
While it may be helpful to look up the definitions of difficult or obscure words, you are expected to do NO outside research. The paper needs to be 500 words, use 12 point font, and be double spaced. There is no heading requirement. Be sure to use quotation marks when quoting from the poem
The poem is called “I Sit and Sew” The poem need to be analyze with the style of “New Criticism”
I Sit and Sew
BY ALICE MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON
I sit and sew—a useless task it seems,
My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—
The panoply of war, the martial tred of men,
Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken
Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death,
Nor learned to hold their lives but as a breath—
But—I must sit and sew.
I sit and sew—my heart aches with desire—
That pageant terrible, that fiercely pouring fire
On wasted fields, and writhing grotesque things
Once men. My soul in pity flings
Appealing cries, yearning only to go
There in that holocaust of hell, those fields of woe—
But—I must sit and sew.
The little useless seam, the idle patch;
Why dream I here beneath my homely thatch,
When there they lie in sodden mud and rain,
Pitifully calling me, the quick ones and the slain?
You need me, Christ! It is no roseate dream
That beckons me—this pretty futile seam,
It stifles me—God, must I sit and sew?

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