For this assignment, you will choose one of the two prompts below and write an 800-1200-word essay in response about it. Include quotations and textual evidence from the works you’ve chosen and cite them in MLA format. Please cite any lessons you use as resources (including lesson title and instructor’s name). Your essay must be followed by an MLA style References page with at least 2 sources. Do not include an abstract. Including a cover page is optional.
you learned about a variety of literary characteristics including connotation, denotation, tone and mood. Choose one or more poems from your course reading list and explain how at least one of these characteristics is employed and how it contributes to the overall message of the poem. Use examples from the poems you’ve chosen to support your claims.
Select two of the following Shakespearean sonnets to read:
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 60
Sonnet 94
Sonnet 116
Sonnet 130
Read all of the following poems:
‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats
‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe
‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning
‘Song of Myself’ by Walt Whitman
‘Funeral Blues’ by W.H. Auden
‘Birches’ by Robert Frost
