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Essay Instructions: An argumentative analysis essay on how you understand the poem “the red wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams
Here is the poem;
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.

The essay requires proper use and documentation of at least five substantive references to at least three traditional secondary resources.
No electronic references.
Six paragraphs; one introduction, four body paragraphs of each part of this poem and one conclusion.
Beware of thesis statement and topic sentence.

Essay Instructions: The required book would be "the compact bedford introduction to literature, 8th ed. by michael meyer(boston:bedford/st. martin's, 2009)

For this paper of at least 750 words (include word count on the final draft as the syllabus instructs), your assignment is to investigate, analyze, and describe the way in which a short story, poem, or play from our text functions as literature. In our classroom discussion, we examined how William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow” would have been very different if it had been written as a sentence in standard prose. From there, we thought about how a poem can change our usual notions of language, of perception, and even of visual presentation. Finally, we concluded that a poem can comment on our ideas of what’s important or necessary in our experience or thinking. For instance, most people wouldn’t even expend much thought on a wheelbarrow—red, green, or chartreuse, let alone write a poem about it—but Williams does. You could argue that by reducing our perceptual field to some of its most fundamental elements, he makes us reconsider what we think we know about language. You might want to look at Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” (541) and show why this is a story and not merely a recitation and remembrance of motherly advice and admonitions. Is it something about the relationship uidas specific as you can—quote the text—about what you see in the story that reveals elements of conflicts, character, plot, moral valuation, or universal archetypes. Any story, poem, or play in the Meyer text can serve as the focus for this assignment, but make an argument focusing on those elements you see as central in the definition of the piece of literature you choose as art.

To help you with terms and elements of various genres read Meyers’ introductions to each genre listed in the text on pages xvii-xix. It might be helpful for you to look at Meyers’ definition of a literary term in the Glossary of Literary Terms (1619-1643) in the text to help you anchor your argument. For example, you may want to look up the definition of “symbolism” to examine Hughes’ use of the rose in “Formula,” but there’s really no need to cite more than a sentence of Meyers’ definition in your essay. Instead, you should work with your own concept of the rose as a symbol of beauty in both nature and art. Try to be as specific as you can in both your argument and in your support for your claims (once again, use examples from the text).

Essay Instructions: Writer Username: Writer
2 Pages (minimum of 8 paragraphs)
T.S Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", William Carlos William's "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", Wallace Stevens's "The Emperor of Ice Cream" and "Anecdote of the Jar", Gertrude Stein "Tender Buttons", "Glazed Glitter", and "A Substance in a Cushion", and finally, William Faulkner "As I Lay Dying".
All of these writers, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Stein and Faulkner -- believed that language and art should convey something in an abstract rather than a concrete manner. That is, rather than try to have art communicate things in a one-to-one way, trying to recreate life in all its various details, art should rather capture the essence of something through suggesting its essence. Another name for "abstract" is "non-representational": meaning art that consciously TRIES not to be "realistic," but rather is consciously "unrealistic," in order to suggest something important about life. Choose one author, and one instance of abstraction, and describe what you believe that author is trying to "get at," through that abstraction. What is s/he trying to suggest? What methods is s/he using to do so? Does it "work" for you? Why or why not? Need a bit of range-- refer to writers' works.

Essay Instructions: Assignment 1:Part A) Choose 5 of the following 6 questions and respond in single paragraph answers of from five to eight sentences. Your response should be concise but detailed and should employ quoted material to support each major points.
1. The rhyme pattern in T.S Eliot's"Preludes"(Geddes,65)is a sophisticated and modern variation on an old form. Identify the rhyme pattern in the first stanza and discuss what Eliot might have been trying to do using this pattern.
2.What are the symbolic significances of the candy store in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "The Pennycandystore" Beyong the El"(Gedes,318)?

3.After reviewing the entry on rhyme in Abrams's Glossary, identify three different types of end-rhyme in Theodore Roethke's "Prayer"(Gedes,140). What effects do the rhymes produce?
4.What is the chief symbol in Lorna Crozier's poem"Forms of Innocence"(Gedes,675)? What does the symbol suggest beyond its literal meaning?
5.In "Epithalamium"(Gedes,600)Louise Gl?ck uses alliteration, assonance and consonance. Identify an example of each and comment on the effect of these devices in Gl?ck's poem.
6.How do any three of the plant/vegetation images function, or what do they convey, in Ezra Pound's translation-poem"The River Merchant's Wife:A Letter"(Gedes,2526)?
The choice is yours, as long as 5 answers is completed. Apart from the Course Units given in the course which you do not have from BCOU (British Columbia Open University). The class is called. Engl101. Literature and Composition II.
The reference books for this work is : 20th- Century Poetry & Poetics, Fourth Edition. Edited by Gary Geddes.Oxford University Press, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada.
A Glossary of Literary Terms, seventh edition. M.H. Abrams.Heinle & Heinle Thompson Learning, USA, 1999.

Part B.Read the two following Poems from the 20th Century Poetry & POetics, Gary Gedes and write an explanation of 400-500 words. Your explanation should be based on the instruction and models presented in Unit 2-As you do not have Unit 2, I'll provide here the title of the different parts. It is usual Poetry study for a first year course.
The two Poems: "The Landlady" by P.K Page(Gedes,233) and "Bushed" by Earle Birney(Gedes,161-162).
If necessary please refer to Constance Rooke's "The Clear Path" if in need of information re: how handling quoted material.
If you need further information re:this work order, please contact me.
Unit 1: 1. The Nature of Poetry
1.1 Williams's"The Red Wheelbarrow"

2.Imagery
2.1 Pound'd"In a Station of the Metro"
3.Figurative Language
3.1 Metaphore and Simile
3.2Figurative Language in" From the Hazel Bough"
3.3Symbolism, Symbolism in Avison's"The Swimmer's Moment"
4.Prosody
4.1 Rythm and Metre
4.2 Rhyme and other Sound Devices


Unit 2
Understanding and writing about Poetry
1.Form,Stucture, and Organisation
1.1 Form
1.2 Structure
1.3 Organic Form
2.Explication
2.1 Linear Explication
2.2 From Outline to Explication
An Explication of Irving Layton's"The Bull Calf" by Mike Driscoll
2.3 Discovery Explication
A reading of Sylvia Plath's"Tulips"