Assignment
Compare and contrast some of the poems from this week's readings. You may compare poems from a single poet, or compare poems across poets. Have a debatable, persuasive claim and focus on specific points of comparison, using the Lesson to guide your structure.
Your essays should be in MLA Style and approximately 1000 words, not including the Work(s) Cited page. As with most academic writing, this essay should be written in third person. Please avoid both first person (I, we, our, etc.) and second person (you, your).
Also, take great care not to plagiarize.
Readings from this week:
Read: John Grisham: Somewhere for Everyone (in our text).Read: Sharon Olds, "First Thanksgiving" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53387
Read: Sharon Olds, "Still Life in Landscape" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53386
Read: Sharon Olds, "After Making Love in Winter" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=36723
Read: Sharon Olds, "The Planned Child" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=36230
Read: Linda Pastan, "A Rainy Country" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=42085
Read: Linda Pastan, "I Am Learning to Abandon the World" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/34957
Read: Linda Pastan, "The Obligation to Be Happy" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/39788
Read: Linda Pastan, "Why Are Your Poems So Dark?" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/41918
Read: Larry Levis, "SIgns" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47941
Read: Larry Levis, "To a Wren on Calvary" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47946
Read: Larry Levis, "Winter Stars" at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53388