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202-01 Major English Writers II Spring 1999 |
Instructor:
Randy Rambo Home Page http://www.ivcc.edu/rambo rrambo@theramp.net and rambo@ivcc.edu |
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202-01 Reading Assignments Illinois Valley Community College |
Written
Response Assignments |
This page will be updated regularly throughout the semester.
Written Response Assignments / Study Sheets |
Due by |
| Study Sheet 10: James Joyce's "The Dead" (2345-2373) | Monday, May 3 |
| Written Response 6: Open Response to one of the assigned Yeats poems. Explain what you think is the meaning of the poem, using specific evidence from the poem to support and develop your response. | Wednesday, April 28 |
| Study Sheet 9: Dickens' Hard Times (115-175) | Friday, April 9 |
| Written Response 5: Analyze and explain any passage from pages 65 to 115 of Dickens' Hard Times. You can write about anything you like, but you might analyze what the passage reveals about one or more of the characters or how the passage helps develop a theme in the novel. | Wednesday, March 31 |
| Study Sheet 8: Introduction to Robert Browning and "My Last Duchess." | Monday, March 29 |
| Study Sheet 7: Dickens' Hard Times (1-65) | Monday, March 22 |
| Study Sheet 6: Selected Tennyson Poems | Friday, March 19 |
| Spring Break | |
| Exam 1 Study Sheet: no writing assignment in itself, but this study sheet should help you prepare for Exam 1. | Exam
1 is Wednesday, March 3 |
| Study Sheet 5: Selected Keats Poems | Wednesday, February 24 |
| Discussion Questions for Shelley's "Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude" | Monday, February 22 |
| Written Response 4: Open Response to Shelley's "Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude" (1672-1690) | Friday, February 19 |
| Study Sheet 4: Introduction to Lord Byron (1550-1554) and Selection from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1559-1577) | Wednesday, February 10 |
| Written Response 3: Open Response to Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1487-1504). For this assignment, you should explain some aspect or part of the poem. It is up to you to decide what you will discuss, but make sure not to write only a summary of the poem or part of it. Use specific evidence from the poem to support your interpretation! | Friday, February 5 |
| Study Sheet 3: Selected Coleridge Poems | Monday, February 1 |
| Written Response 2: Explain Section 5 of Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (1384), focusing especially on the metaphor(s) that Wordsworth uses to convey his meaning. Comment in particular on the images of light, the "Shades of the prison-house" (67), and the journey of the Youth from east to west, all of which are closely related and metaphorical. To better understand this section, and the entire poem, you should read the introduction to the poem in the textbook and the NeoPlatonism section of the "Nature Poetry and the Romantics" handout. Study the passage carefully, and keep in mind that everything in the passage makes perfect sense. Of course, read and enjoy the entire poem--it's one of the best ever written. | Friday, January 29 |
| Study Sheet 2: Wordsworth's "Lines" (1336-1339) | Friday, January 22 |
| Study Sheet 1: Wordsworth's "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (1340-1352) | Wednesday, January 20 |
| Written Response 1: "London" (1298) is one of the bleakest poems in Blake's "Songs of Experience." According to this poem, what is wrong with the world? Who or what is to blame for the state of things? As you develop your response, comment on the possible meanings of some of the poem's images, such as "the mind-forg'd manacles" (8), the "blackning Church" (9), and the "blood" that "Runs . . . down Palace walls" (12). | Wednesday, January 13 |
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