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Essay Instructions: Pastiche: One poem or poetic fragment, minimum ten lines; or one short story or fictional prose fragment, minimum 500 words (approx. 2 pp.), or one scene from a drama (or a "micro-drama").

Defense: minimum 750 words (approx. 3 pp.).

Write a poem, or fragment of a poem, or a small story, or a dramatic work scene or small drama), that borrows particular formal and/or thematic elements from one of the works in our text. In particular, think about ways that your creative work will use aspects of the ancient text, but will also update other aspects.

identify specific formal and thematic characteristics of a text. But then, you will attempt to transfer a few of them to a text of your own creation.


“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. Among many other characteristics, it presents a male speaker who tells of a father, somewhat strict and disciplined, with whom the speaker, now probably an adult and the father perhaps dead, had a troubled, uncommunicative relationship. You can create a poem that will also remember back to a recurring, that is, a habitual, experience with your father or mother, or a grandparent, or some other authority figure (you can vary the basic elements); you will perhaps try as well to capture the split consciousness: the earlier lack of appreciation, the present tone of regret; and you might also carry over some of the other, more formal devices: the use of sounds to capture some psychological aspect of the person or situation (notice the “k” sounds in the Hayden poem), or the concluding question (“What did I know, what did I know”) that also includes some key word of double significance (“office,” that is partly religious and partly about the disciplined, dutiful matters the son remembers of his father. Everything else in your poem will be your own, although you might perhaps borrow elements from yet another poem or story.

I believe you can find a copy of this poem online but if you need me to send it i can. Ive never done an assignement like this so im a bit confused. If you have any questions please feel free to send me a message. Thanks! I can also send you a copy of an example if that would help.

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Essay Instructions: First of all I want "hophead" to complte this essay example/sample order. After reading "Those Winter Sundays". What is the speaker's attitiude toward his father, past and present. Are ther any suggestion s as to why he feels this way? Please use 2 quotes and specific detail.
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Essay Instructions: Choose one of the following questions/topics to respond to in essay form. The essay should be no more than two pages, and, like any essay, have an introduction (with a thesis), support, and a conclusion. You should make direct references to the poems you use for support by quoting or citing lines (e.g. In line 13, John Donne argues. ...). Do not make use of any criticism by others. Just use your interpretation. This essay is due January 20th.
1- Compare and contrast the fathers from the poems "Daddy" (830) and
"Those Winter Sundays" (803).