You are all clearly using Google and Wikipedia to find analysis of your poems. I really wish you wouldn't (you really have the tools to do this on your own), but since you are, you can’t pass off the information you find as your own. Rewording is not enough. Here are things you MUST cite:
- biographical information about the poet
- historical information about the poem
- analytical ideas that are not your own -- this is intellectual property
- EX: another writer’s analysis compares this poem to a passage from the Bible
- you must cite the writer who explained this AND the passage from the Bible
- EX: another writer’s analysis points out an allusion to something you didn’t see or understand on your own
NOTE: you CANNOT cite Wikipedia (it is not an “authoritative” source). You also can’t cite Sparknotes or Gradesaver or blogs. So really, you shouldn’t even bother looking there because then you will be in a pickle--these sites will give you information you want to use, but you can’t! Use scholarly essays through JSTOR or Google Scholar.
In a two page paper like this you don't need citations except for the poem--stay grounded in the text!
