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Essay Instructions: 1.) Biographical information on Seamus Heaney. 1 page.
2.) Explication and critical analysis of the poem "Punishment" by Seamus Heaney. This part of the paper should be 5 pages total.
3.) The explication of the poem must include the symbolism used in the poem "Punishment" and use of diction, allusion, imagery, and theme.
4.) The entire paper needs to be in MLA format and each part of the paper must be backed by RESEARCH. Everything must be annotated using parenthetical notation.
5.) There needs to be a sufficient amount of quotes in the research paper which are all annotated aswell.
6.) There should be at least 15 works cited sources, 5 of them need to be sound reference books.
7.) Any websites used in the works cited must be legitimate particularly .edu, .gov, etc.
8.) The paper must not be plagerized in any way and work must be original
9.) Please include a well written introduction and conclusion, The entire paper must not exceed the 6 pages I am paying for, but also must be a full 6 pages. No half pages. The entire paper must flow through and be all one.
10.) It is imperative that all research, quotes, etc. are ANNOTATED USING PARENTHETICAL NOTATION. And this means throughout the paper. Not just one here and there, the entire paper PLEASE.

Essay Instructions: select two poems "digging" seamus heaney "advice to my son" peter meinke

closely ananlyze the two poems for their claims, evidence, assumptions and rhetorical appeals must critique the poems in light of three aforements elements of argument. analyze each poem in addition of the two other aspects of your choice. example: claim+evidence+assumpitions or claim+assumpitions+rhetorical appeals
the critical analyzed essay has to be 600-750 works un MLa format
coompare and contrast the poems and determine which one has the strongest persuasive appeal. which poem articulates the most convincing idea of the relationship between family and identity based upon your evaluation of the element of argument

Essay Instructions: 4 page essay analysis of the poem Churning Day by Seamus Heaney based on discoveries and careful reading including but not limited to imagery, poetic devices, structure, development, etc.Must be a thorough exploration of a limited idea or position and include some conection between Heaney's Nobel speech and the the poem "Churning Day"

Essay Instructions: For this assignment on poetry, I’d like you to compare several poems that we’ve read in class:

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

Bogland By Seamus Heaney
We have no prairies
To slice a big sun at evening--
Everywhere the eye concedes to
Encrouching horizon,

Is wooed into the cyclops' eye
Of a tarn. Our unfenced country
Is bog that keeps crusting
Between the sights of the sun.

They've taken the skeleton
Of the Great Irish Elk
Out of the peat, set it up
An astounding crate full of air.

Butter sunk under
More than a hundred years
Was recovered salty and white.
The ground itself is kind, black butter

Melting and opening underfoot,
Missing its last definition
By millions of years.
They'll never dig coal here,

Only the waterlogged trunks
Of great firs, soft as pulp.
Our pioneers keep striking
Inwards and downwards,

Every layer they strip
Seems camped on before.
The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage.
The wet centre is bottomless.


The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.



The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.


"The Ballad Of The Landlord" by Langston Hughes
" Dinner Guest: Me " by Langston Hughes


Choose several poems that explore a particular theme, and write a paper comparing them. Your essay should contain some explication of both poems, focusing on the way the poems use a poetical element (or elements). You’ll want to get familiar with Chapter 28 as this in the chapter that goes over the explication of poems. All papers need to follow, MLA (Modern Language Association) format. At the end of your paper, you need to attach a Works Cited page. I do expect you to refer fully to the works we study. Without textual reference, you simply cannot prove your point. I expect to see a citation for each work you make reference to in the body of your paper. Please note that when you are writing about poetry, don’t use page numbers as reference. Instead, you use line numbers. At the end of the quotation, you will put (ll.1-3), for example, as a reference to lines 1-3. As the first essay, this one should also be about five pages long and double-spaced. Here is information on citing specifically poetry in MLA format: http://www.uta.edu/english/rosenberg/mla_poetry or http://www.shepherd.edu/scwcweb/hndpoetry.htm
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