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Essay Instructions: People who have read "Home Burial" by Robert Frost often describe Frost as a poet who creates a troubling, frightening world bordered by anxiety, doubts, and darkness. How does "Home Burial" support this reading of Frost's poetry?

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Essay Instructions: In the following three poems by Robert Frost, "Birches", "Mending Wall", and "Home Burial", discuss his portrayal of rual life and his attitude toward the common men and women in his poems. How does he portray nature--is it similar to that of Thoreau in Walden or that in Emerson's poetry? What is the relationship between human beings and nature?

Essay Instructions: Write an in depth analysis of one of the women in "Eros Turranos", "Home Burial", or Winter Dreams.


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Eros

http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Robinson_E/Eros.htm

Home Burial

http://www.bartleby.com/118/6.html

Winter Dreams

http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/winterd/winter.html

Essay Instructions: Consider the following characters: Pecola in "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, Matt Fowler in "The Killings" by Andre Dubus , The couple in "Home burial" by Robert Frost, Gurov in "The Lady With A Pet Dog" by Anton Chekhov, and Krebs in "A Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway. Name what you might consider each characters' main flaw or problem, and then argue which character is most likely to resolve his or her issue. Concentrate on that particular character, but be sure to use comparison of other characters in your analysis and help support your argument. IT IS IMPORTANT TO CREATE A THESIS AND USE QUOTES FROM THESE STORIES TO SUPPORT YOU THESIS. THE THESIS SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY LOGICAL, INSIGHTFUL EXPLANATION AS WELL AS A BLANCED NUMBER OF DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE STORIES.