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Essay Instructions: Read the following excerpt from Melville's essay "Hawthorne and His Mosses" carefully.

The passage begins..."The Chrismas Banquet" and "The Bosom Serpent" would be fine subjects for a curious and elaborate analysis, touching the conjectural parts of the mind...]" and ends with... "You cannot come to know greatness by inspecting it; there is no glimpseto be caught of it, exept by intuition, you need not ring it, you but touch it, and you find it is gold."

(I am also faxing copies of the passage and directions from the professor for writing this paper)

Then systematically go through the passage explaining each line and then explain the ways this passage may help (and hinder) our understanding of the works of Emily Dickinson(use only poems 49 [I never lost as much but twice-]; 67 [Success is counted sweetest-]; 214 [I taste a liquor never brewed-]; 280 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain-]; 303 [The Soul selects her own Society-]; 754 [My Life had stood -- A Loaded Gun-]; 1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-] , Nathanial Hawthorne (only use to "The May Pole of Merry Mount"; Preface to "The House of the Seven Gables"; "The Scarlet letter"), Edgar Allen Poe (only use "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Imp of the Perverse"; "The Cask of Amontillado"; "The Purloined Letter"; "The Raven"; "Annabel Lee")and other Melville writings ("Moby Dick"). Pick 2-3 Dickinson Poems, one Nathanial Hawthorne story, 1-2 Poe storys and Moby Dick by Melville to write about.

In the essay, state your thesis and be sure to make DIRECT references to SPECIFIC passages, characters and/or episodes in the works of these writers in order to illustrate your points.

Length of paper: maximum of 750 words
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Essay Instructions: I will fax specific directions tomorrow 1 Dec 04 in the morning.
Reference the following after reading faxed directions.
Hawthorne: The May Pole of Merry Mount
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
Dickinson: The followin #'d poems will be faxed 49,67,214,216,280,303,341,435,449,465,501,510,632,712,754,1129,1624
Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher Melville: Moby-Dick
The Cask of Amontillado
The Imp of the Perverse
There are faxes for this order.