Explicating a poem entails conducting a detailed analysis of both structure and content.
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING TWO LITERARY WORKS
STUDENTS HAVE TWO OPTIONS FOR ESSAY #2:
Explicating a poem entails conducting a detailed analysis of both structure and content. Content refers to the language of a poem. In other terms, then, analyzing the content of a poem involves offering a careful analysis of the specific words of a poem; this careful analysis of the language of a poem will, of course, lead to a discussion of other elements as well, including setting, speaker, metaphor, irony, etc. (the interrelated details).
Option #1
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Choose two of the poems from the assigned readings and
* Write a detailed analysis of its form and content
*Consider discussing such things as a form of the poem and its content, the effect of such stylistic devices as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, or, meter variation
* There are many rhyme scheme patterns, so absolutely do not merely repeat and define rhyme schemes
Option 2:
Compare and contrast from two of the assigned readings two divergent critical approaches to literature.
Regardless of how one approaches the reading, the essay should be:
* Structured around some organizing thesis (main argument) that is pursued throughout the analysis of the essay.
*The goal of the essay is to make an argument about what the essay means through a careful analysis of its structure and content.
* Use of four outside critical sources in this essay.
- 6 pages in length
- This essay must be argumentative (persuasive) in nature
- It must use a sufficient number of textual examples–quotations followed by explanation and interpretation–as argumentative support
- Adhere to MLA standards and guidelines
- Contain at least four outside sources
- Works Cited page
- Required Assigned Readings:1) A Pair of Tickets – Amy Tan 2) The Necklace– Guy de Maupassant 3) A Rose for Emily – William Faulkner4) A Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allen Poe 5) The Character of George Washington – Thomas Jefferson http://www.
lamission.edu/~diazcov/3140( Link (Links to an external site.) to an external site.) 6) Battle of the Ants- from Chapter 12 of Walden, or Life in the Woods – Henry David Thoreauhttp://www.lamission. edu/~diazcov/3141(Link (Links to an external site.) to an external site.)7) The Prince, Chapter 18 “Concerning the Way In Which Princes Should Keep Faith” –Niccolo Machiavellihttp://www. lamission.edu/~diazcov/3144( Links (Links to an external site.)to an external site.)8) City of the Dead –VDC http://www.lamission.edu/ ~diazcov/4628(Link (Links to an external site.) to an external site.)9) Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats https://www. poetryfoundation.org/poems/ 44479/ode-to-a-nightingale (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)10) The Highway Man– Alfred Noyeshttp://www. poetryfoundation.org/poem/ 171940(Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)11) The Charge of the Light Brigade
Requirements: 6 PAGES
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