Examine the relation of form and content and it’s importance in the work of the poets, Whitman, Williams and add Levertov as another example of enjambment and say what it’s doing there (in the bottom of the attached doc). Focus on ‘for is always a form of content’. How does the structure of the poem […]
Choose ONE Option to write an essay that utilizes Contextual or summary observations matter less than textual revelations.
Textbook: Farrah Cato’s The Open Anthology of American Literature: Beginnings to 1865 YOU CHOOSE ONE OF FOUR OPTIONS/WRITERS/Whitman,Apess, Black Hawk, Child,Fern Choose ONE Option to write an essay that utilizes Contextual or summary observations matter less than textual revelations. USE ONE MAIN STATEMENT IN FIRST PARAGRAPH THAT WHOLE ESSAY WILL REVOLVE AROUND USING EXAMPLES FROM […]
Choose a passage from Song of Yourself that picks up on similar sounds and rhetorical devices. Could you versify such a paragraph, Whitman style?
Whitman’s “Democratic Vistas” can be read for guidance on Whitman’s voice as well as his aspirations as a bard. Read aloud one of the emotionally charged and prophetic paragraphs—for example, the one beginning “Then still the thought returns,” and then choose a passage from Song of Yourself that picks up on similar sounds and rhetorical […]
“Do I dare/Disturb the universe?” “And how should I presume?” Compare and contrast each poet’s use of the first person point of view and its tone in these two poems.
Choose three of the following questions and respond to them in at least one full page each. Essay Question 1: Although written over a hundred years apart, Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan” are both poems that reflect on particular moments in time and meditate on their historical significance. For Wordsworth, the […]
Write an essay but must incorporate dominant ideas of Self, Solitude , Isolation and Society from the pieces of American Literature by Emerson, Whitman and Emily Dickenson
Listen carefully (headphones recommended) to the above song. With reference to phrases and lines from this song, compose an extended or long form essay within the range of 750-1000 words. Watch this trailer (2.35minutes) Write an essay but must incorporate dominant ideas of Self, Solitude , Isolation and Society from the pieces of American Literature […]
Write a theme that explores how Steinbeck experiments with a more supple and multidimensional view of success and happiness.
You will write a 500-word theme addressing one of the prompts listed below. 1. Steinbeck & Contentment: Throughout Cannery Row, Steinbeck comments about the complexity of defining the meaning of ‘success’ and ‘contentment.’ Write a theme that explores how Steinbeck experiments with a more supple and multidimensional view of success and happiness. How is a […]