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Essay Instructions: I have written 2 pages of analyses but my Professor wants me to get into it even more detailed, so I will need 2 additional pages of analyzes. Can you also look through my written paper, there is only a few editing problems that my Professor wants me to correct such as word of choice.


Instructions
Explicate "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke. Concentrate on point of view, tone, imagery, figurative language, and form. How do these aspects of the poem develop theme? Use 2 sources from ebscohost.com.
Use at least 4 quotes from the 2 articles from ebscohost.com and 3 quotes from the poem to support the essay.
Please send me the 2 articles that you used together with my essay.

Poem:

Theodore Roethke

My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.

We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother's countenance
Could not unfrown itself.

The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.

You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
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Essay Instructions: The first and second page are not realated to each other

For the first page: Compare Pound's "Metro" with Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz": What subject is common to both poems? What does each poem teach us relevant to that subject? What elements does each poem employ to deliver its lesson

For the second page:Dickinson’s “Wild Nights” & Shakespeare’s “That time of year…” are both love poems. Study the imagery used in each. What does the metaphorical language reveal about the speaker? Use each poem’s metaphors to describe the condition??"age, gender, emotional state, etc.??"of the speaker. Then use the same metaphors and explain how they also endow each poem with specific ironies.


also the sources can just be the poems themselves

Essay Instructions: Final Essay

An eight-page Final Essay is due in Week Five. The purpose of the Final Essay is for you to culminate the learning achieved in the course by describing your understanding and application of knowledge gained during this introduction to literature.

Focus of the Final Essay

Compose an eight-page Final Essay highlighting an element of literature (theme, character, setting, conflicts, etc.) by using your choice of at least three (3) works from two genres to support your ideas. (You could choose two poems and a play; two short stories and a poem, a poem, a play, and a story, etc.) A scholarly study of literature connects or compares works from different genres by using one literary element.
This is your assignment: find a way to connect or compare one literary work to two others. Reading the notes taken in your journal may help. Analyze the specific element in the selections with some depth. Support points with appropriate examples from the selections and explain how the examples support those points. Think about what you wanted to read again, what struck you as the most profound, what you wanted to see in film, or hear aloud. Go with the impulse to study the works that were the most interesting to you. You do not need resources outside the course materials for this essay; however, you must cite the works you use from the texts.

Writing the Final Essay

The Final Essay:

Must be eight double-spaced pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in your approved style guide.
Must include a cover page that includes:
Name of paper
Student's name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
Must use APA style as outlined in your approved style guide to document all sources.
Must include, on the final page, a Reference List that is completed according to APA style as outlined in your approved style guide.

PLEASE SELECT FROM POEMS OR SHORT STORIES FROM LIST BELOW.

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Chapter 2: Types of Short Fiction
Stephen Crane ??" "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" p.482
Raymond Carver ??" "Cathedral" p.455
Chapter 11: Reading Poems
Emily Dickinson in Context (6 poems)
"I died for Beauty," p.926
"I dwell in Possibility," p.931
"I heard a fly buzz," p.926
"I reckon " when I count at all," p.929
"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant," p.938
"This was a Poet," p.925
Chapter 33: Critical Theory: Approaches to the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature


Theme for Week One ??" The Creative Process Thematic readings for Week One include the following works that may be assigned in different parts of the course (reading each more than once is a great idea):
Sherman Alexie ??" "Indian Education," p.320
Stephen Crane ??" The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" p.482
Jamaica Kincaid ??" "Girl," p. 397
Emily Dickinson ??" "This was a Poet," p.925
Alexander Pope ??" "The Universe," p.823
Ferlingetti ??" "Constantly Risking Absurdity," p.1106
Plot and Structure ??" Flannery O'Connor ??" "Good Country People," p.188
Character ??" Toni Cade Bambara ??" "The Lesson," p.427
Setting ??" Bobbie Ann Mason ??" "Shiloh," p.67
Point of View ??" William Faulkner ??" "A Rose for Emily," p.79
Language and Style ??" Kate Chopin ??" "The Story of an Hour," p.38
Theme ??" Franz Kafka ??" "Metamorphosis," p.611
Irony and Symbol ??" Franz Kafka ??" "Metamorphosis," p.611
Chapter Thirty-two: Writing with Sources
Pay particular attention to the student papers and how other works are used as a stimulus for an essay.
Chapter Thirty-three: Critical Theory: Approaches to the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature


Theme for week two--The Individual and Community Thematic readings for week two include the following works that may be assigned in different parts of the course (reading each more than once is a great idea):
Toni Cade Bambara ??" "The Lesson," p.427
William Faulkner ??" "A Rose for Emily," p.79
John Updike ??" "A&P," p.32


Additional Readings
Gwendolyn Brooks ??" "We Real Cool," p.1079
Woody Guthrie ??" "This Land is Your Land," p. 897
Yehuda Amichai ??" "A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention," p. 1045

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Poems to read:
William Shakespeare
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" p.874
"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes," p.1186
"My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun, p.1187
Chapter 14:
Writing about Poetry
Chapter 34:
Critical Comments about Literature
Wallace Stevens ??" "Observations on Poetry," p.2208
Octavio Paz ??" "The Power of Poetry," p.2215


Read the following poems found in your text, Literature, Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.
W.H. Auden ??" "Musee es Beaux Arts," c. 3
George Gordon, Lord Byron ??" "She walks in beauty," p.1111
Octavio Paz ??" "The Street," p.1052
Emily Dickinson ??" "Because I could not stop for Death," p.810
Elizabeth Bishop ??" "The Fish," p.1069
Marc Doty ??" "Golden Retrievals," p.1031
Robert Frost ??" "The Road not Taken," p.808
Langston Hughes ??" "Theme for English B," p.1009
John Keats ??" "When I have fears that I may cease to be p.1131
D.H. Lawrence ??" "When I read Shakespeare," p.1152
Anne Bradstreet ??" "To my Dear and Loving Husband," p.1077
John Milton ??" "When I Consider How my Light is Spent," p.1161
Rainer Maria Pilke ??" "The Cadet Picture of my Father," p.1179
Edger Allan Poe ??" "The Raven," p.1173
Theodore Roethke ??" "My Papa's Waltz," p.773
Theodore Roethke ??" "The Root Cellar," p.1181
Cathy Song ??" Lost Sister," p.1188
Wallace Stevens ??" "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," p.1192
C.K. Williams ??" "Invisible Mending," p.1208
James Wright ??" "A Blessing," p.1217
James Wright ??" "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine"
James Wright ??" "Island Minnesota," p.1217


Theme for Week Three ??" Internal Struggle and Meditation Thematic readings for Week Three include the following works that may be assigned in different parts of the course:
Marc Doty ??" "Golden Retrievals," p.1031
Robert Frost ??" "The Road not Taken," p.808
Theodore Roethke ??" "My Papa's Waltz," p.773
James Wright ??" "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island Minnesota," p.1217
Kate Chopin ??" "The Story of an Hour," p.38
Flannery O'Connor ??" "The Life You Save May be Your Own," p.223

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Essay Instructions: Essay

Choose one of the following three questions. Write a focused, developed essay in response to the question. Keep in mind that introductory and concluding paragraphs help you reader (me) to follow your train of thought. Be sure to refer to at least four works (poems) in your response.

Remember: Just write one essay and refer only to the works we have read in this poetry unit. Use citations if you use outside sources.


1. Writers of poetry often use imagery as a way to connect the reader to the work. Select at least four works and discuss the poets’ use of imagery. Be sure to refer specifically to the imagery.

2. Define open form and fixed form, and choose at least four poems (some of each) and examine how the form of the poem contributes to the reading and understanding of it.

3. Poetry can evoke strong feelings in readers. Sometimes it shocks us, amuses us, provokes us??"makes us think. Choose four poems (minimum) that had a powerful effect on you as a reader and examine what makes those poems so powerful. While it will be appropriate to discuss your own reaction, be sure to back up your answer with specifics from the poetry.


List of Poems that can be used in this assignment:

My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/18045

Bogland By Seamus Heaney

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

"The Ballad Of The Landlord" by Langston Hughes

" Dinner Guest: Me " by Langston Hughes

Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"

William Shakespeare "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun"

Tato Laviera's "AmeRican,"

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