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Thursday, June 01, 2006
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Writing Assignment |
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Written Response
6: Choose one of the following questions to
answer, using specific details from the novel to
support and develop your response:
- What commentary does the last scene with Marlow and Kurtz's "Intended" provide on the rest of the novel?
- Contrast the Intended with the native woman on the docks. How do these characters symbolize the oppositions of the novel?
The questions above are from http://www2.una.edu/wphillip/conrad.html.
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Monday,
April 23 |
| Written Response
5: As a footnote in the textbook explains, Robert
Browning's "Andrea del Sarto" (2051-2056)
"has often been praised for its exposition of a
paradoxical theory of success and failure." The
idea is that one can be both a success and a failure at
the same time. How is "a paradoxical theory of
success and failure" developed in the poem? Try to
explain how Andrea, some of the other painters he
mentions, and Andrea's wife, Lucrezia, help Browning
develop this idea of failure and success. Make sure to
use specific details from the poem to support and
develop your response. |
Monday,
April 2 |
| Written Response
4: We generally think of a hero as someone who performs
brave deeds and helps people, but Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
(1645-1658) portrays a new type of hero, commonly called
the "Byronic hero." Choose at least two or
three adjectives that you think describe this character
well, and use specific evidence from the poem to prove
that the words you have chosen are appropriate for this
character. What is heroic about this character? Do you
find anything unappealing about the character? (Remember
to use at least a few pieces of specific evidence from
the poem to support each claim you present!) |
Friday,
Feb. 16 |
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Sheet 3: Introduction to Lord Byron (1636-1639),
selection from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
(1645-1658). |
Wednesday,
Feb. 14 |
| Written Response
3: Open Response to Coleridge's "The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner" (1580-1595). You may write about
any aspect of the poem, but make sure to write an
analysis and interpretation, not just a summary. |
Friday,
Feb. 9 |
| Written
Response 2: Explain how, in stanzas 5 and 6 of
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (1479-1485),
Wordsworth traces our human existence from birth to
adulthood and explores the intimations of our
immortality in relation to our progress through this
earthly existence. To understand the passage, consider
that much of the language is metaphorical. Also consider
the symbolism, most of which is related to the
metaphors, especially the imagery of light and darkness.
Note: I see only one way to interpret these stanzas. You
may interpret some of the details in a slightly
different way, but there is a well-established way to
interpret the stanzas that makes perfect sense, that
explains all of the details of the lines, and that is
consistent with the ideas explained in the introduction
to the poem and conveyed elsewhere in the poem. Yes, I'm
looking for a specific and correct answer here! |
Monday,
Jan. 29 |
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Sheet 2: Wordsworth's "Lines" (1432-35) |
Wednesday,
Jan. 24 |
| Study
Sheet 1: Wordsworth's "Preface to Lyrical
Ballads" (1435-1448) |
Monday,
Jan. 22 |
| Written
Response 1: Blake's "The Lamb" (1351), from Songs
of Innocence, and "The Tyger" (1359), from
Songs of Experience, give us two different
visions of the same world. In at least a couple of
paragraphs, contrast the viewpoints presented by the two
poems. To develop your response, you should say
something about the speakers of the poems (how do they
seem different?), the meaning of the poems in relation
to Blake's ideas about the states of innocence and
experience, and any possible symbolism in the poems. Go
into depth with your explanation of the poems, but focus
on pointing out how the poems present two contrasting
views of the same world. |
Friday,
Jan. 19 |
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