Write an analytic paper comparing any 2 of the works
Choose 2 poems, a poem and a story, or 2 stories for this assignment. Spend plenty of time in pre-writing, listing similarities and differences and selecting those that are the most noteworthy for making an overall point about how one compares to the other. Put your ideas into outline form before drafting, following either a point-by-point or text-by-text structure (refer to the "Writing a Comparative Analysis" link). Your completed essay should be roughly 3-4 pages long (750-1000 words), and it must follow current MLA format. Your choices of texts are the following: Stories:
"Rose for Emily," William Faulkner "Hills like White Elephants," Ernest Hemingway "Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allan Poe "A&P," John Updike "A Handful of Dates," Tayeb Salih "Stolen Party," Liliana Heker "Battle Royal," Ralph Ellison "A Good Man is Hard to Find," Flannery O'Connor "The Birthmark," Nathaniel Hawthorne
Poems: "Those Winter Sundays," Robert Hayden "Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds," William Shakespeare "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," Emily Dickinson "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church," Emily Dickinson "Harlem," Langston Hughes "When I Heard the Leam'd Astronomer," Watt Whitman "Dulce et Decorum Est," Wilfred Owen "Haunted Palace," Edgar Allan Poe "Mirror," Sylvia Plath "Garden of Love," William Blake