Instruction
Topic: "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass."
Determine the main theme of that essay.
Go back through the assigned readings to find 1 short story or poem that you think deals with a similar theme. Be creative when figuring out shared themes—there may be some interesting ones that are not immediately obvious because of the difference in forms.
Discuss the rhetorical techniques—voicing, tone, imagery, symbolism, rhetorical appeals, etc.—that the authors of the two works use. Do they use similar rhetorical techniques?
How do the rhetorical techniques used and the form (essay, short fiction, or poetry) seem to affect the way the theme is addressed?
Please divide your posts into paragraphs for easier reading, and make sure to reference, paraphrase, or quote specific passages from the text to support and illustrate what you say.
Required Readings
"Explicating Poetry"
"Elements of poetry"
“Go Down Moses”
“Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter” - Robert Bly
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” - Anne Bradstreet
“A Hard Rain is Gonna’ Fall” - Bob Dylan - This is a video. You can read the lyrics here: "A Hard Rain is Gonna' Fall."
“Mending Wall” - Robert Frost
“The Road Not Taken” - Robert Frost
“Plane Wreck at Los Gatos” - Woody Guthrie
“This Land is Your Land” - Woody Guthrie
“Harlem” - Langston Hughes
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” - Langston Hughes
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” - Christopher Marlowe
“To His Coy Mistress” - Andrew Marvell
“The Nymph’s Reply” - Sir Walter Raleigh
“My Papa’s Waltz” - Theodore Roethke
“Uphill” - Christina Rossetti
“Ozymandias” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night” - Dylan Thomas
“Liberty and Peace” - Phillis Wheatley
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” - Phillis Wheatley
“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” - Walt Whitman
“Lake Isle of Innisfree” - W. B. Yeats