Category: Poetry

Just need someone to finihs this essay. Needs to be 7 pages in total. The two poems and headings are already provided.

1- Take about how the poem speaks to Four A.M. By Wislawa Szymborska you in some way. It could be a personal connection you feel to the poem, or something particular about the images and language that the poet uses, or perhaps the sound or unique form of the poem. Share your ideas about it with your classmates, pointing to specific lines and ideas. 2- What idea or point from this essay( What Is a Poem? By Mark Yakich ) struck you as enlightening in some way? how Can you connect it to the poem (Four A.M. By Wislawa Szymborska)

Review two poems first “HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS” by Ernest Hemingway and second “I am nobody who are you?” by Emily Dickinson then use the following instruction prompt : The final paper will be 5–6 pages long, double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman or similar font with 1-inch margins. you must compare these two texts through careful analysis of each. For the Final Essay, you must develop your thesis into a complex argument about the two works you are comparing. You must look beyond the immediate details of the texts to say something bigger. WHAT DOES AN ‘A’ FINAL PAPER LOOK LIKE? An excellent final paper will, like your close reading, be highly specific, pay as much attention to HOW something is said, as to WHAT is said, and back up all its points with evidence from the text. Most importantly, an excellent final paper moves beyond the close reading. Close reading is the tool you use to make an argument, but it’s not the content of the argument itself. A WORD ON REVISION If you choose to expand on your first or second paper, be sure to pay close attention to the feedback you received and spend some time revising as you expand. Revising is not the same as editing. Revision is literally re-vision, seeing your paper anew and reorganizing, deleting, or adding content. In a word, revising means that you reorganize and rewrite in order to clarify and strengthen your argument. Editing typically means that you go over your writing to make sure that you do not have any grammatical errors or strange phrases that make it difficult for your readers to understand what you are trying to say. In other words, editing means that you take care of minor errors in your writing. Requirements: Cite from at least 2 of the assigned texts 5-6 pages (Double Spaced) No citation of outside resources

Weight: 65 per cent
Length: 2200 words (creative work 2000 words, analysis 200 words)
Task Description
Students write an original short work of narrative fiction and workshop it in groups before final submission. This creative work responds to the literary traditions discussed in the session. The work must be accompanied by a short analysis of how narrative techniques were employed in its creation.
Advice
For this assignment, you may want to focus on a narrative element: time, character, plot, structure, and investigate its limits and possibilities. You may choose a narrative technique like second person point of view or free indirect discourse or elliptical plots or symbolism. You might want to explore narrative in other forms like poetry, or multimodal texts such as comics, or through experimental writing. You might want to attempt to use postmodern techniques like pastiche, parody, metafiction, intertextuality. You might want to explore the abject, or try queering your writing, or turn your attention to what narrative can and can’t do in relation to health, justice or ecology. You can build on a story you began writing in a class exercise, or steal an image or line from another work and make it your own. choose one below
Script: 8–10 pages Poetry: 6–8 pages or 120–180 lines (one long poem, or a suite of poems that serve the same narrative)
Marking criteria
Expression and presentation in line with professional standards 25% Originality and imaginative quality of work 25% Creativity and insight of reflection on theoretical approaches 25%
Accomplishment of narrative structure and style 25%

Length:  3 pages, typed, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12 pt. Times New Roman font
Please note: Many publications can devote only a small amount of space to book reviews and, as a result, give reviewers very strict limitations upon the length of their reviews.  Therefore, please do not allow your review to exceed the length requirement.  Part of the challenge of this assignment is to say a lot in a short amount of space.  Think about the best way to introduce readers to the entire book in 3 pages of writing.
Objectives:
• to introduce readers to the content, form, and style of the poet’s collection of poems
• to convey the artistic merit of the poems
• to convince readers that the book has value*
* is worth reading (But do not write any explicit statement like, “Buy this book!”  You should convince your readers of the quality of the poems in terms of their craft and their ideas.) 
How this paper differs from the Poet Laureate Paper:
In book reviews, the purpose is to convince readers to read the book.  The book is new and does not have an established place in the world of widely received literature, unlike the work of the US poets laureate whom we previously read in this course.  So in a review, it is okay to add statements of value judgment along with interpretation.  But even so, like in the other papers, you do not want to rely only on emotion but on analysis of the poet’s strong craft and strong ideas. (Weak: “Poet X is excellent!”  Stronger: “Poet X creates very unique metaphors for conveying the strength of a mother’s love for her son.”Then, go on to quote the lines that contain the unique metaphor, following those lines with an explanation of what those lines suggest about the mother’s love for her son.)
Format:
Introduction:  Set up a context for the collection by doing research on the poet.  For example, is this the poet’s sixth book of poems after a long hiatus?  Or is this the poet’s “debut” (i.e. first) collection?  Is there some biographical detail from the poet’s life that is helpful for establishing a context for the book?  Warning: do not let the entire introduction turn into a biography of the poet.  Just give readers only the details that are relevant for understanding the poems in the book.  For example, if you learn that the poet’s work experience or travel or death in the family have influenced the subject matter in the book, explain.
Then, to lead us to your thesis statement at the end of the introductionthink about: what has been the reception of the book (or of the poet’s previous work) so far? Include some very brief quotations from other reviewers, so your readers can see how your thesis contributes a new viewpoint to the existing ones. Right after you mention the other reviewers’ thoughts, then state your thesis, showing us how you are adding to (or echoing?) theirs.
End of the introduction/thesis statement: Near or at the end of the first paragraph of your paper, include a “thesis statement” about an overarching idea you find running through the entire book. One way to come up with an overarching idea is to think about the appropriateness or significance of the title of the book. Also, as you read the book in the order that the poems were collected, take notes on recurring images, metaphors, concrete contexts and themes that you find as you read.  Think about why the poet is so preoccupied with these images/ideas.  Is there some progression of thought to the sequence?  Does the attitude toward or treatment of this content change over the course of the book?  KEY:  Do not simply state a topic(s) as your thesis.  A “topic” is just a single word, like “loss.”  Be specific.  What kind of loss?  What is the poet saying ABOUT “loss”?  What is the poet’s attitude toward loss?  (Weak:  “In Book Y, Poet X writes about loss.”  Stronger:  “In Book Y, Poet X grieves the loss of a spouse and overcomes the emotional and spiritual challenges to find consolation in Z (?) after this loss.”)  OR if your book does not have such a tight organizing principle to it, and the poems seem to be about many different kinds of subject matter (e.g. love, death, family, nature, work, faith, social ills, identity, etc. the list is endless), then your thesis might include a brief LIST of a few ideas, and you would devote a body paragraph to each of them. But to form a thesis and not just a list of “topics” find a conceptual thread that runs throughout the book, despite the varied concrete contexts.
Body:  I am not going to dictate a specific number of poems that must be included in your paper.  You should decide the number that will help you support your thesis. Selection of relevant material is an important part of the writing process for any paper.  In general, your paper as whole should examine several poems from the book that support your main idea or ideas in the thesis. Remember that you are trying to convince us of the strength of the poems as poems too, so choose poems where you can show readers that such formal details as images, metaphors are unique and/or that the word choice is exact, for example.
In this paper, rather than writing a full analysis of one poem in each paragraph, you might find that you need to include brief passages from a few poems in a single paragraph if you are trying to show, for example, that a particular idea runs through a number of poems in the book. This method is useful if you find a strong cohesive concept among the poems in the book.  On the other hand, you may find that you want to show so much variety of theme or styles in the book that you will need to divide your review into paragraphs for each point, quoting a different poem in each paragraph.
The poet has ordered the poems in the book for a reason!  Including thoughts on the following poems in the book will often serve your point about the book as a whole well:  (1) the first poem in the book, (2) the last poem, (3) the title poem (i.e. the poem in which the words of the title can be found)*  *not all books have a title that can be found within one of the poems in the book, but many do.  Also, analyzing these poems is a suggestion, not mandatory.  You do want to be sure to quote any poems from the book that support your thesis about the book.
An example for giving a sense of artistic merit would be to point out the poet’s unique use of metaphor.  Introduce the metaphor by explaining the point you want to make about it; then quote the lines from the poem that contain the metaphor; then explain why/how it is unique. Does it take a very traditional metaphor and put a unique twist on it so that we think afresh about the concept?  Or does the metaphoruse a very unusual concrete object to serve as the vehicle of the abstract concept?
Research:  You will definitely need to search for other reviews of this poet’s work, either on the web or even in databases. Remember that these books are quite new, so you might not find reviews in databases yet, but you will be able to find some thoughts on the web, either in online journals or even blogs written by poetry lovers. Read these reviews/blogs with a view toward finding ways you can make a new contribution to what is being written about the book. For example, perhaps no reviewer you’ve found mentions that the poet has a lot of “dog” poems in the collection. (What has happened to the dog?  Why is the poet writing about the dog?  How has the poet treated this very cliché subject matter with a unique twist?  Does the poet appear to be examining the dog’s life/actions with a view toward understanding human life/actions better?)  Or perhaps no one has written about a particular attitude you think the poet has toward the subject matter, for example, parenting. Through research, you may also find out some biographical, or even autobiographical, information that would help readers read the poems better.  You might even find the poet’s own words about his or her own poems or about poetry in general, for example.  It could be a strong method to find statements made by the poet about his or her work (or about the value of poetry in general) and show us how the poet’s words help us understand the poems in the book better.
Some examples of sources for reviews:
• the poet’s own website (for autobiographical information, information about the poet’s earlier publications, links to book reviews)
• amazon.com customer reviews (you should read these so you can aim to say something different)
• reviews of the book in online publications (online literary journals)
• reviews of the book in publications found in databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Literature Resource Center (You might find reviews of a poet’s earlier books, and so you could compare this newer book to older ones.)
Mechanics and Documentation:  
• Italicize the title of the book.
• Use quotation marks around the titles of poems and around quoted lines of verse.
• This time, put page numbers in parentheses after the quotations from poems because you need to help readers find the poems in the book.
• Use slash marks to indicate line breaks     /
• Use double slash marks to indicate a stanza break     / /
• If you quote 4 or more lines of verse, block them.
• Use poet’s full name (from the title page of the book) at first reference and only last name after that.
• Avoid using the second person “you” and “your” anywhere in the paper. Use “readers,” or even “we” is acceptable.
• Do not start your last paragraph with “In conclusion” or “To conclude”
• INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION: If you do use some research material, give the author’s full name and the publication information (title of article and name of website? online journal?) in your sentence.  In other words, do not use parenthetical documentation, but instead include all the citation information in the sentence itself.  For example: In her review on abcblogspot.com, Jane Smith says “blah, blah, blah.”  
Warning:  Since you may be moving from poem to poem in this short paper more quickly than you did in the Poet Laureate Paper, please remember to tell the reader the title of the next poem in the sentence in which you shift to it in your paragraph.  For example, you might be trying to argue that a mother’s tone toward her son changes throughout the collection.  To do this, you might need to quote 3 different poems in the same paragraph to show a shift in the tone from anger to resignation to love.  In Poem X, the mother sounds angry; in Poem Y, resigned; in Poem Z, loving.
Works Cited page will include:
1. the book of poems
2. the poet’s website
3. any book reviews that you quote in your paper
PAPER PROPOSAL:  due Monday, April 22 (hand me a printed copy at the beginning of class)
Format:   1 page, single line-spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman font
Please include the following components:
I.​full title of the book and author’s full name
II.​preliminary thesis statement for your paper, written in full sentence(s)
III.​the full titles of several poems (put titles in quotation marks) that you plan to quote in your paper to ​​​support ​your thesis; each title should be accompanied by a brief explanation (2 sentences) of why ​​​you think the poem is important to analyze to support your thesis in the review
IV.​two (or more) questions you would like to ask the poet during the poetry reading (Write these in full ​​​sentences.)

Analyzing “Morning Song” and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath would be a compelling choice. Both poems delve into complex emotions related to motherhood, identity, and relationships, offering rich material for comparative analysis.Topic: The term literary critical theory refers to philosophical approaches that seeks to confront the social, historical, and ideological forces and structures that produce and constrain literature and interpretations of literature. Literary critical theory consists of various schools of thought, each focusing on differing though often overlapping elements of literature in relation to culture and cultural issues. There are major critical theories focusing on topics such as gender roles and gender performance, socioeconomic class divisions and inequality, racial identity and ideology, postcolonial and historical influences, and psychological impulses, just to name a few. While there are vastly differing approaches to analyzing literature, what all these theoretical approaches have in common is their concern with the relationship between the individual and the culture at large and the way this relationship is represented in works of literature. 
So, with these ideas in mind, choose two poems from our assigned readings in which you find a strong basis for comparison to write about. Write an analytical essay interpreting the two poems you choose and your comparison of them, explaining what the poems teach us about human beings as individuals or as a society. By analyzing the relevant elements of poetry, such as speaker and listener, point of view, character, style, imagery, symbolism, tone, and theme, show how the poems address human nature and the human condition. Interpret what the poems together suggest about life in the real world. Explain and support your interpretation.
Subject: Choose two poems from our class selection of poetry that share a strong thematic connection and basis for comparison warranting further analysis. Keep your analysis focused on the poems. The poems are the subject of your analysis.
Structure:
Complete a minimum of 5 pages (not counting the works cited page) of written analysis in and thesis-and-support essay structure, as covered in the Week 1.
Include the formal elements of thesis-and-support structure and be sure to stay focused on the two poems you’re writing about. Remember you’re writing an analysis of your comparison and the text of the poems: the poems together are your subject.
Give your essay a title that is creative and relevant to the poems and to your comparison of them. (Consider an informative subtitle to accompany your creative title.)
Develop a formal introduction paragraph with a hook, a well-developed orientation, and an interpretive thesis — all focused on your subject.
Develop a thesis statement that is complete with all the required parts: subject, opinion, and logic. (The poems are your subject, your interpretation of your comparison of the poems is your opinion, and what you see happening in the poems or in your comparison that leads you to your opinion is your logic.)
State your thesis at the end of your introduction paragraph. Have your hook and orientation build up to your thesis, and then make certain that every supporting paragraph that follows relates to and supports that thesis.
Provide at least four supporting paragraphs that are each complete with a topic sentence, a sufficient number of evidence sentences that support the topic sentence, and a summary statement — all unified by your thesis.
Maintain a balanced analysis of points of comparison between the poems.
Use your own words and ideas for all your topic sentences. Topic sentences are to be analytical, meaning that they address your subject and connect it to a supporting topic. (Do not use any plot points or plot summary without connecting it to a topic. Do not use quotations in a topic sentence or summary statement. Supporting paragraphs should begin and conclude with your own ideas.)
Only use quotes as part of your evidence sentences. The evidence sentences of your supporting paragraphs are the only sentences in your essay that may include quotations from your research and subject. (Think of quotes as support; therefore, they belong in between topic sentences and a summary statements.)
Bring your analysis to a fitting close with a conclusion paragraph that stays focused on your subject, gives your essay a sense of completion and resonance, and reaffirms your thesis in retrospect of the analysis you’ve presented.
Research:
Search the Pierce College Library databases for a minimum of four peer-reviewed articles written about the poems you’re writing about (at least twofor each poem) that you can reference to support your analysis. Use the title of the poems as keywords in the various search terms you try.
All articles attained through research must be written about the poems you are analyzing, must come from the Pierce College Library databases, and must be peer-reviewed. (If you find an indispensable source that’s in the databases but is not directly about the poem, you may use it as an extra source, but don’t let it lead you off topic, and you’ll still need to use four articles that are about the poem/poems specifically, to meet research requirements. That would make five secondary sources in that case to document on your works cited page.)
Access peer-reviewed articles through the Pierce College Library’s online databases that specialize in literature, such as Academic Search Complete,Gale Literary Sources, and JSTOR. Start your research with the OneSearch feature on the library homepage.
Quotations/Synthesis:
Support your thesis with evidence, examples, and quotes from both poems. In every supporting paragraph, include at least one significant and representative passage quoted from a poem as effective support. That’s a total of four quotes from the poems (two from each poem), minimum, one in every supporting paragraph. All of your points should be founded in the text of the poems, and you should quote enough to make the connection clear. Do not quote for summary. Do not quote fragments or incomplete thoughts. Quote important passages for support.
Support your thesis with research. In every supporting paragraph, include at least one significant and representative quoted passage from a peer-reviewed article about the poem/poems as effective support for your interpretation. Use at least four  peer-reviewed articles (two for each poem). That’s a total of four quotes from secondary sources, minimum, one in every supporting paragraph. Do not quote summary of the poems. Do not quote fragments or incomplete thoughts. Quote important passages.
Quotations are to be used in the evidence sentences of supporting paragraphs only. (Do not use any quotes from primary or secondary sources in your topic sentences or summary statements or in your introduction or conclusion paragraphs.)
Use mechanics of quotation. Remember quotations cannot stand alone: every quote needs to be integrated and made part of your own sentence in a way that maintains the grammatical integrity of your sentence. Otherwise, it’s free floating. For a long quote that needs to be set off from the rest of the text of the paragraph, use a colon to introduce it. Review MLA mechanics of quotation and documentation for poems.
Formatting:
Format your essay according to 9thedition MLA guidelines, including headers, heading, margins, indents, spacing, and mechanics. Use 12-point font, Times New Roman. Follow this link for complete details: MLA 9th Edition Formatting and Style Guide and use the official website for extra guidance: MLA.org – Formatting.
Cite all quotations and sources according to 9thedition MLA guidelines, including in-text parenthetical documentation and corresponding works cited page.
Use appropriate mechanics for short quotes and long quotes, according to MLA guidelines.
Your works cited page should have at least six listings: two for your primary sources (the poems you are writing about) and at least four for your secondary sources (the peer-reviewed articles you attain through research). Your works cited page is to correspond to your parenthetical documentation and to list only those sources you have actually referenced in your essay.
Other important requirements:
Don’t mention the terms “human nature” or “human condition.” They are too broad for your purpose. Your assignment is to connect your subject to a more specific topic within the broader concepts of the human condition and/or human nature.  
Throughout your essay, be direct, stay focused, maintain an active and academic voice, eliminate filler, refrain from making announcements, and revise your writing thoroughly.
You may summarize to develop your orientation and briefly for the sake of supporting a point — but not as filler. Summarize no more than necessary.
Be mindful that you’re emphasizing and staying focused on what’s important about your subject and opinion: maintain a sense of exigency.
Rubric: Your essay will be scored primarily, based on the inclusion and completion of assignment requirements for structure, focus, qualifying research, synthesis, effective use of researched material and quotations, and MLA formatting for layout and mechanics of quotation and documentation, including parenthetical documentation and corresponding list of works cited, and secondarily, based on conventions of English writing, including spelling, grammar, and usage, for readability.

TS Eliot writes, in the opening of his epic poem “The Wasteland,”
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dead tubers. (1-7)
Traditionally, Spring has been viewed as a positive event in life, when nature wakes up from winter’s slumber.
However, in this Modernist poem, April, the month when Spring takes full hold, is called the “cruelest month.”
Why? Please explain why in the context of the important literary movement of Modernism.
**To do that, you’ll want to cite a definition for Modernism–and the textbook is fine–but define the movement, likely in the intro, then look at how this work fits into that definition as you write your body paragraphs.
Please use your textbook or a credible literary source to first define the Literary Modernismof the early 20th century.
As always, write your answer as a complete academic essay in MLA format with the body paragraphs grounded in our paragraph plan.
Remember, too, that we cite line numbers for poetry, not page numbers.

choose two poems of the villanelle form to compare and contrast. Analyze the way each poet uses the form– is it strict, is it “loose,” for example? How does the form relate to the “meaning” of the poem?
https://poets.org/poem/waking
https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night
links to the two poems I chose.
The paper should be approximately 500 words in length, and you should be sure to manage direct quotations from the poems correctly. In order to do well, you would need to quote some parts of the poems and talk about those quotes in your text. Use MLA format for layout. I have attached a handbook for MLA format, the same one which I use in my composition classes, for your convenience. We are using 9th edition (from April, 2021).

RESEARCH PAPER ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
You must complete the required textbook readings in preparation for this Research Paper
Assignment. This will equip you to objectively respond to the readings by compiling
information from a variety of sources in order to compose a persuasive analysis of a literary
work. You will also learn to follow standard usage in English grammar and sentence structure;
proceed independently through the various stages of research and integrate sources accurately
and effectively; identify the theme and structure of each literary selection as well as the
significant characteristics or elements of each genre studied; and evaluate the literary merit of a
work.
INSTRUCTIONS
You will write a 1,500-word (approximately 5 pages) paper that addresses 1 of the plays from
the Drama Unit. At least 6 citations, including the primary source and at least 5 secondary,
scholarly sources, are required for this assignment. Before you begin writing the paper, carefully
read the below guidelines for developing your paper topic. Review the Research Paper
Grading Rubric to see how your submission will be graded. Gather all of your information,
plan the direction of your paper, organize your ideas by developing a 1-page thesis statement and
outline, draft your paper, and compile sources used. Format the thesis/outline, draft, and works
cited/references/bibliography using current MLA, APA, or Turabian style, (whichever
corresponds to your degree program); check your Harbrace Essentials Handbook pp. 106–158
(MLA); pp. 159–192 (APA); pp. 193–220 (Turabian), and/or the link contained in the Learn
section, to ensure the correct citation format is used.
Your submission must include a title page, thesis statement, and outline, followed by the
research paper, and your correctly documented sources page.
Guidelines for Developing Your Paper Topic
The “Writing about Literature” section of your Perrine’s Literature textbook (pp. 1–54) and the
“Writing” section of Harbrace Essentials (pp. 1–12, 15–16, 18–21, 22–28) provide helpful
pointers for writing your literary essay and for academic writing in general. Be sure that you
have read this section before doing any further work for this assignment. Take particular notice
of the examples of drama essays on pp. 48–54 of your Perrine’s Literature textbook.
Choose 1 (ONE) of the prompts below to address in your paper:
1. Write an essay explaining how Sophocles’ Oedipus exemplifies or refutes Aristotle’s
definition of a tragic hero. Review pp. 1250–1254 and 1257–1258 in your Perrine’s
Literature textbook for the background and overview of Aristotle’s concept of
tragedy/the tragic hero and drama. Then, re-read Sophocles’ play, Oedipus; you may
review additional audio-visual resources on the play as well.
2. Discuss William Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice as a tragedy. As defined by
Aristotle, is it correct to label Othello a “tragic hero” and to classify the play as an
Aristotelian tragedy? Review pp. 1250–1254 and 1257–1258 in the Perrine’s Literature
ENGL 102
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textbook for the background and overview of Aristotle’s concept of tragedy/the tragic
hero and drama. Then, re-read Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice; you may
review additional audio-visual resources on the play as well.
3. Discuss the author’s perception of death and the treatment of death in Everyman. Be sure
to re-read the play before you begin your essay. You may review additional audio-visual
resources on the play as well.
Finding Scholarly Sources
For your papers, you are only permitted to use academic sources. Resources such as 123Essays,
Spark Notes, Cliff Notes, and Masterplots (or similar resources) are not scholarly and will not be
permitted in your papers. To find appropriate sources, access the Jerry Falwell Library through
the link in Canvas. From there, you can use the Library Research Portal to find peer-reviewed,
scholarly journals. The Literature Resource Center is an excellent resource for these types of
papers.
If you need additional help finding the right sources, you can contact a librarian from the Jerry
Falwell Library by emailing your questions to ********************. You are also free to visit
your local library or do some research on the Internet; however, you must make sure that you
have credible sources.

RESEARCH PAPER ASSIGNMENT
INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
You must complete the required textbook readings in preparation for this Research Paper
Assignment. This will equip you to objectively respond to the readings by compiling
information from a variety of sources in order to compose a persuasive analysis of a literary
work. You will also learn to follow standard usage in English grammar and sentence structure;
proceed independently through the various stages of research and integrate sources accurately
and effectively; identify the theme and structure of each literary selection as well as the
significant characteristics or elements of each genre studied; and evaluate the literary merit of a
work.
INSTRUCTIONS
You will write a 1,500-word (approximately 5 pages) paper that addresses 1 of the plays from
the Drama Unit. At least 6 citations, including the primary source and at least 5 secondary,
scholarly sources, are required for this assignment. Before you begin writing the paper, carefully
read the below guidelines for developing your paper topic. Review the Research Paper
Grading Rubric to see how your submission will be graded. Gather all of your information,
plan the direction of your paper, organize your ideas by developing a 1-page thesis statement and
outline, draft your paper, and compile sources used. Format the thesis/outline, draft, and works
cited/references/bibliography using current MLA, APA, or Turabian style, (whichever
corresponds to your degree program); check your Harbrace Essentials Handbook pp. 106–158
(MLA); pp. 159–192 (APA); pp. 193–220 (Turabian), and/or the link contained in the Learn
section, to ensure the correct citation format is used.
Your submission must include a title page, thesis statement, and outline, followed by the
research paper, and your correctly documented sources page.
Guidelines for Developing Your Paper Topic
The “Writing about Literature” section of your Perrine’s Literature textbook (pp. 1–54) and the
“Writing” section of Harbrace Essentials (pp. 1–12, 15–16, 18–21, 22–28) provide helpful
pointers for writing your literary essay and for academic writing in general. Be sure that you
have read this section before doing any further work for this assignment. Take particular notice
of the examples of drama essays on pp. 48–54 of your Perrine’s Literature textbook.
Choose 1 (ONE) of the prompts below to address in your paper:
1. Write an essay explaining how Sophocles’ Oedipus exemplifies or refutes Aristotle’s
definition of a tragic hero. Review pp. 1250–1254 and 1257–1258 in your Perrine’s
Literature textbook for the background and overview of Aristotle’s concept of
tragedy/the tragic hero and drama. Then, re-read Sophocles’ play, Oedipus; you may
review additional audio-visual resources on the play as well.
2. Discuss William Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice as a tragedy. As defined by
Aristotle, is it correct to label Othello a “tragic hero” and to classify the play as an
Aristotelian tragedy? Review pp. 1250–1254 and 1257–1258 in the Perrine’s Literature
ENGL 102
Page 2 of 2
textbook for the background and overview of Aristotle’s concept of tragedy/the tragic
hero and drama. Then, re-read Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moor of Venice; you may
review additional audio-visual resources on the play as well.
3. Discuss the author’s perception of death and the treatment of death in Everyman. Be sure
to re-read the play before you begin your essay. You may review additional audio-visual
resources on the play as well.
Finding Scholarly Sources
For your papers, you are only permitted to use academic sources. Resources such as 123Essays,
Spark Notes, Cliff Notes, and Masterplots (or similar resources) are not scholarly and will not be
permitted in your papers. To find appropriate sources, access the Jerry Falwell Library through
the link in Canvas. From there, you can use the Library Research Portal to find peer-reviewed,
scholarly journals. The Literature Resource Center is an excellent resource for these types of
papers.
If you need additional help finding the right sources, you can contact a librarian from the Jerry
Falwell Library by emailing your questions to ********************. You are also free to visit
your local library or do some research on the Internet; however, you must make sure that you
have credible sources.