Description
This critical response essay is about the poem "Head, Heart" by Lydia Davis. I have the ebook so here is the site and log in to get the story. I will include what pages to go to.
Website: Yuzu.com
Log in: [email protected]
Password: Devilsrams1322!
Pages for the poem: 732-733
This assignment is a literary analysis that you do not need to back up with sources [but you can]. This means that you should approach this assignment by rereading the areas on the schools of literary criticism and think deeply about our readings. The area that I chose is "Reader Response."
The question that needs to be answered as my thesis statement is "In what significant ways can we expect readers to react to this work?"
It all rests on an argument and your argument requires a thesis statement.
Some example topics that work well for this course might include:
Elements of Poetry (remember to choose something specific under these umbrella topics):
- Form & Structure
- Symbolism & Allegory
- Voice: speaker vs. author, tone
- Sound devices
- Theme
- Using "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, construct a comparison and contrast argumentative essay in which you examine how each author uses one of the following themes:
- Time
- Carpe diem ("Seize the day")
- Love vs. Lust
- Life and death
Additional Tips:
- Present a clear thesis statement in your Introduction that establishes your focus—it should be a claim that your essay will prove.
- Titles of short stories and poems in quotation marks; titles of novels and longer works should be underlined or italicized.
- Discuss literature in the historical present tense—not the past tense.
- When quoting, please include the page number from our anthology in parentheses.
- Use block quotations for any poetry that runs more than three lines of prose that runs more than four lines.
- If you quote less than 3 lines from a poem, be sure to use a forward slash (/) to indicate line breaks.
Sample Solution