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Essay Instructions: "Identify the prevailing figurative language, figures of speech in the poem LEDA AND THE SWAN" BY WB YEATS."

My recommendation for this paper are the following:
my Professor has explained only these types of figures of speech:
1.SIMILE
2.METAPHOR, EXTENDED, EXPLICIT AND EMBEDDED METAPHOR
3. COLLLOCATION
4.MIXED METAPHOR
5.DEAD METAPHOR
6.CONCEIT
7.ALLEGORY
8.PROSOPOPOPEIA
9.ANTHROPOMORPHISM
10.APOSTROHE
11.IRONY
12.METANOMY
13.SYNECDOCHE
14.PUNS
15.ANTANACLASIS
16.PARONOMASIA
17.SYLLEPSIS
18.ANTHIMERA
19.PERIPHRASIS OR ANTONOMASIA
20.ALLUSION
21.LITOTE
22.EUPHEMISM
23.RETORICAL QUESTION
24.HYPERBOLE
25.PARADOX
26.ANTITHESIS
27OXYMORON
28.CLIMAX
29.ANTICLIMAX
I NEED TO POINT OUT ONLY THESE TYPES NOT OTHERS.

Essay Instructions: Choose an art work which has as its source (subject matter) a myth. (use a painting.) Then write an essay in which you analyze how the artist has captured, so you feel, the essential meaning, spirit, values of the myth itself.

Go to the Art Gallery on the homepage for suggested paintings you may use.

Art Gallery

This link leads you to a number of famous art works inspired by mythology. This link has several purposes:

1. To provide enrichment for the course; you are encouraged to look at these art works, most of which are well known, so that you may become more informed about myth and art.

2. To provide you with possible choices for myths and art works to use when you write Essay 2.

3. To help students appreciate how myth carries over into later ages and other aspects of life.

If you have any visual impairment which prevents your successful examination of these pictures, let me know and we’ll provide an alternative opportunity. You will merely read the myths and summarize them, ignoring the pictorial images.

The Death of Icarus by Bruegel http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/icarus.jpg

Pandora by Dante Rossetti http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rossetti/rossetti35.html

Venus and Adonis by Paolo Veronese (Caliari) http://www.artehistoria.com/frames.htm?http://www.artehistoria.com/genios/pintores/c3667.htm

The Rape of Europa by Titian http://www.artchive.com/artchive/T/titian/rape_europa.jpg.html

The Disturbing Muses by Giorgio de Chirico http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Chirico3.html

The Laocoon Group by Hagesandros, Polydorus, and Athanadorus http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/greek/laocoon.jpg.html

The Judgment of Paris by Rubens http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rubens/rubens50.html

The Flaying of Marsyas by Titian http://www.abcgallery.com/T/titian/titian90.html

The Birth of Venus by Botticelli http://artchive.com/artchive/B/botticelli/venus.jpg.html

Leda and the Swan by Dali http://www.spanisharts.com/reinasofia/dali/leda.htm



Purpose of the assignment:

1. To help you realize how important myths are (have been) to artists in all mediums (how frequently the myths we study have themselves been the object of study by other artists, who in a way, retell the myth through their own creative imaginations).

2. To help you try to get beyond the literal story or plot of the myth you choose to write about (to see the metaphor and to be able to see the meaning within and/or behind it).

3. To provide you opportunity to improve your thinking, writing, and reading skills.

4. To enrich your understanding of a particular myth (the one chosen) and of a particular art work (the one chosen).

One way to organize your paper may be as follows:

1. Write one paragraph of introduction in which you discuss in general terms how and why artists so frequently recreate myths in their art works.

2. Then move to a second paragraph in which you identify the myth and the art work you will write about. Here you would identify the names and sources of the myth (its title; what country and time frame) and the general background of the art work based on this myth (the title of the art work, the name of the author, when created, what country, etc.).

3. Take another paragraph and summarize the myth–retell the plot so that readers will be reminded of the story of the myth.

4. Then take another paragraph and analyze the myth; try to interpret its major themes. What values does it celebrate? What is the purpose of the myth? Does it share a moral lesson? Does it praise certain virtues? Does it describe the good and/or the bad which necessarily follows those who behave well and/or badly?

5. Then shift to your discussion and analysis of the art work? You may wish to give a general overview of the piece, a kind of summary if you will. A good idea would be to xerox a copy of the art work and attach it to your paper so that readers can consult it to determine your meanings.

It is difficult for me to advise you in this section because every art work is unique and accomplishes different ends. But study the painting (art work) closely; ask yourself: What is the purpose of this art work? What is the artist’s vision? What is he/she trying to say/do? What message is being sent? How does the artist try to reach the audience/viewers? What is the difference between written stories and those captured in paintings, for example?

You may wish to consider these items: the theme of the myth and how you feel it is captured; the story and its details of plot–which ones does the artist include or ignore? What character(s) are central in the art work? Where is the major focus in the art work? When one first looks at it, where is his/her attention drawn?

What use does the artist make of light–of colors–of line–of movement–of space–positioning of elements? What use does the artist make of light–balance, symmetry, or avoidance of these elements?

How is emotion captured by the artist? Look closely at faces and eyes and mouths? How does the artist try to invest his characters with the attributes they have in the story version of the myth?

Of course, you will not want to concern yourself with all of these elements; I have just tried to suggest a range of possibilities. Many others exist and you do not necessarily have to attend to any of my suggestions. Let what is useful serve your needs; disregard those you don’t understand or prefer not to consider.

Then after you have discussed in several paragraphs how the myth is restated or captured in the art work, you should add a conclusion in which you perhaps repeat your main point and somehow end on a note of the relationship(s) between art and myth.

Tip or Advice: If you look up your artwork in two or more art references (books), you are very likely to find a paragraph or more where the art work is evaluated and analyzed. This information would be very useful to you in writing your paper. Be careful. Do not just copy the information from the art reference book. Try to restate the ideas in your own words. Either way, you should most likely include a footnote or some citation material to let your readers know where the ideas (information) come from.

Any questions please email me :)

Essay Instructions: I NEED this paper ON TIME please! No later than tomorrow by 4pm!!

Choose one post-modern poem to write about. It can be a poem by either E.E. Cummings, W.B Yeats, or T.S. Eliot. These are the poem options from each poet:

E.E. Cummings:
Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal; se being Brand; My sweet old etcetera; since feeling is first; i sing of Olaf; may i feel said he; pit this busy monster, manunkind

W.B. Yeats:
The Wild Swans at Coole; Easter, 1916; The Second Coming; Sailing to Byzantium; Leda and the Swan; Among School Children; Coole and Ballylee, 1931; Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop; Under Ben Bulben; The Circus Animals Desertion

T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Portrait of a Lady; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Windy Night; Morning at the Window; The Boston Evening Transcript; Aunt Helen; Cousin Nancy; Mr Apollinax; Conversation Galante; La Figlia Che Piange

Again, please choose only one poem. Also, please follow these instructions exactly. I laid out very specific guidelines on what to do and the format of the paper. PLEASE FOLLOW :)

Identify an explicit or implied conflict (between characters; between institutions and individual characters or groups of characters; or in some other literary element that creates a pattern of doubling or rivalry within the action, imagery, symbol, tone, or form; etc.) that occurs in the poem. Then, analyze how that conflict in the poem expresses and explores a problem and/or solution to a crisis of meting for particular individuals, groups, nations, or intellectual, philosophical, religious beliefs or traditions. This should be a close reading, organized by a thesis.

Introduction: It may help to categorize the conflict to help you understand the problems of self and other (i.e., conflict) that it represents. For example, does the conflict portray a problem within the discourses of race, class, gender, ethnicity, nationalist, or some other cultural division, such as rural/urban, colonized/colonizer, modern/tradition? The first few sentences of the introduction should identity the specific social, political, or cultural problems addressed by the poem, and then in 3-6 sentences you should briefly outline how/why we see this addressed in the poem.

Thesis: everything you write should support an original, interesting (not obvious), focused, and arguable (not factual and/or not subjective) thesis (clearly stated) about the pattern of conflict deployed within the context of the modern crisis of belief. Your thesis should have both a "claim" (an assertion in the main clause about the problem or value asserted by the poem) and a "reason" (a subordinate clause that suggests why the issue is a problem or why a particular value is better or worse). The reason should cover all the points you argue in the body of the paper. A thesis should be one sentence, and it should appear as the final sentence in your first paragraph. Underline the thesis.

Main body of paper: every body paragraph should begin with a topic sentence that asserts an argument that supports the main argument of your thesis. the rest of each body paragraph should explain the assertion of the topic sentence and offer relevant and necessary details and examples from the text to make your point. Do not simply state obvious or literal facts about the poem in the topic sentence; if you do, the paragraph will have no purposeful relation to your thesis - it will have no reason for being in the paper. Do not devote paragraphs to summarizing the poem or some part of it. Do not devote whole paragraphs to historical context disconnected from analysis of the poem.

Conclusion: The conclusion should argue why contemporary readers should care about the conflict as it is portrayed or solved or left unsolved (i.e., why we should embrace or resist the values or beliefs implied by conflict and how it develops). Why is what you have argued important to contemporary readers? That is, according to your own political beliefs/values, how (specifically) does the poem help or hurt our understanding of the conflict it portrays?

Special instructions/format: The format of this paper should follow standard MLA format for an academic paper. Write an argumentative, interpretive essay (1-inch margins exactly, double specced, 12-pt. Times New Roman font). Underline the thesis, which should be one sentence (in the form of a claim + a reason). Don't use any outside sources please.

Essay Instructions: I NEED this paper ON TIME or early if possible please! No later than today by 11pm!!

Choose one post-modern poem to write about. It can be a poem by either E.E. Cummings, W.B Yeats, or T.S. Eliot. These are the poem options from each poet:

E.E. Cummings:
Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal; se being Brand; My sweet old etcetera; since feeling is first; i sing of Olaf; may i feel said he; pit this busy monster, manunkind

W.B. Yeats:
The Wild Swans at Coole; Easter, 1916; The Second Coming; Sailing to Byzantium; Leda and the Swan; Among School Children; Coole and Ballylee, 1931; Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop; Under Ben Bulben; The Circus Animals Desertion

T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Portrait of a Lady; Preludes; Rhapsody on a Windy Night; Morning at the Window; The Boston Evening Transcript; Aunt Helen; Cousin Nancy; Mr Apollinax; Conversation Galante; La Figlia Che Piange

Again, please choose only one poem. Also, please follow these instructions exactly. I laid out very specific guidelines on what to do and the format of the paper. PLEASE FOLLOW :)

Identify an explicit or implied conflict (between characters; between institutions and individual characters or groups of characters; or in some other literary element that creates a pattern of doubling or rivalry within the action, imagery, symbol, tone, or form; etc.) that occurs in the poem. Then, analyze how that conflict in the poem expresses and explores a problem and/or solution to a crisis of meting for particular individuals, groups, nations, or intellectual, philosophical, religious beliefs or traditions. This should be a close reading, organized by a thesis.

Introduction: It may help to categorize the conflict to help you understand the problems of self and other (i.e., conflict) that it represents. For example, does the conflict portray a problem within the discourses of race, class, gender, ethnicity, nationalist, or some other cultural division, such as rural/urban, colonized/colonizer, modern/tradition? The first few sentences of the introduction should identity the specific social, political, or cultural problems addressed by the poem, and then in 3-6 sentences you should briefly outline how/why we see this addressed in the poem.

Thesis: everything you write should support an original, interesting (not obvious), focused, and arguable (not factual and/or not subjective) thesis (clearly stated) about the pattern of conflict deployed within the context of the modern crisis of belief. Your thesis should have both a "claim" (an assertion in the main clause about the problem or value asserted by the poem) and a "reason" (a subordinate clause that suggests why the issue is a problem or why a particular value is better or worse). The reason should cover all the points you argue in the body of the paper. A thesis should be one sentence, and it should appear as the final sentence in your first paragraph. Underline the thesis.

Main body of paper: every body paragraph should begin with a topic sentence that asserts an argument that supports the main argument of your thesis. the rest of each body paragraph should explain the assertion of the topic sentence and offer relevant and necessary details and examples from the text to make your point. Do not simply state obvious or literal facts about the poem in the topic sentence; if you do, the paragraph will have no purposeful relation to your thesis - it will have no reason for being in the paper. Do not devote paragraphs to summarizing the poem or some part of it. Do not devote whole paragraphs to historical context disconnected from analysis of the poem.

Conclusion: The conclusion should argue why contemporary readers should care about the conflict as it is portrayed or solved or left unsolved (i.e., why we should embrace or resist the values or beliefs implied by conflict and how it develops). Why is what you have argued important to contemporary readers? That is, according to your own political beliefs/values, how (specifically) does the poem help or hurt our understanding of the conflict it portrays?

Special instructions/format: The format of this paper should follow standard MLA format for an academic paper. Write an argumentative, interpretive essay (1-inch margins exactly, double specced, 12-pt. Times New Roman font). Underline the thesis, which should be one sentence (in the form of a claim + a reason). Don't use any outside sources please.