World Literature 1800-Present
ENGL 218
Prof. G. Steinberg
From The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, choose a poem by William Blake, Willliam Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, or John Keats. In 4-5 pages, argue a thesis in which you focus on one aspect of the poem you've chosen and compare/contrast it with Faust or one of the Romantic poems we've read together in class. Think about what you would consider the most important element that all or most of the Romantic works we've read together share. Does the poem that you've chosen to read for your paper also share this element? How does your poem embody or challenge the principles of Romanticism?
ENGL 218
Prof. G. Steinberg
Paper 2
Read the short story, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," by Flannery O'Connor. Choose one other short story or novella that we've read since the mid-term. How does O'Connor's story compare with the work you've chosen? In 4-5 pages, argue a thesis in which you focus on one aspect of O'Connor's story and compare/contrast that aspect of her story with something similar in the work you've chosen. How is O'Connor's story typical of the literature of the age in which it was written? Is there any way in which O'Connor's story is atypical? Does having had this class help you to understand and appreciate O'Connor's story better? How do you see O'Connor responding to the literature of her time?