Love Poem and Magic of Love

    Love Poem John Frederick Nims My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases, At whose quick touch all glasses chip and ring, Whose palms are bulls in china, burs in linen, And have no cunning with any soft thing Except all ill-at-ease fidgeting people:...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Fiction)

Choose a piecSe from any of the genres (creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, screenplay, or drama) that you want to evaluate. For that piece, answer the following questions in a three-page paper (it can be longer, but it must reach the bottom of the third page): What...

“The Streets” by Rick Barot

write an analysis of the work in which you discuss not just what you feel the poem is about, but also which poetic devices the poet used and to what end. Make sure to go into as much detail as possible about what types of devices are used and how. An analysis is not a...

The central, main “thrust” or “claim”

          Locate the central, main “thrust” or “claim” of one of the poems or stories from our course reader and then to proceed to analyze how this message is developed. This means underlining and emphasizing those key moments in the piece...

setting and situation

Write a 500-word essay on the ways in which setting and situation elements work to develop and reinforce the theme of the poem.    

Form

  Write a 500-word essay on the ways in which form elements work to develop and reinforce the theme of the poem.