Instruction
Moore(ENGL)
This essay should be a 750-1000 word essay focusing on the poetry we have read during Weeks three and four. It is due at the end of Week four.
Do not use the poems you used in your initial posts during weeks three and four. I will be checking.
This essay will be the first in which you will use some sources. While it should primarily use passages from the poem to discuss as evidence, it should also reference 1-2 scholarly sources from outside of your textbook. Websites are not accepted; use APUS online library.
The essay should be in MLA essay format (see the attached sample essay for an example of an MLA formatted essay).
The essay must have an MLA format works cited list that cites all sources used.
The essay grading rubric can be found here.
Assignment: Analyze one poem from the assigned readings using one of the following critical approaches (NOT reader response or biographical criticism) we discussed in the Week four forum, using one to two secondary sources to help support your argument. This source must be peer-reviewed and scholarly. Please read lesson four for an explanation about scholarly sources. Make sure that the essay has a strong thesis related to the approach--do not argue that "this poem is best analyzed with this approach." Again the allowed critical approach choices are:
feminist criticism
historical criticism
Marxist and social criticism
New Historicism
psychological criticism
structuralism
Poems to choose from:
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" by Walt Whitman
"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
The Nymphs Reply Sir Walter Raleigh