Part 1: Choose one of the following and develop it into a supported, proven 1500 word essay. You are expected to complete research. At least two other, secondary texts are required other than the story or poem you choose. Secondary sources should be outside research material about the story or thesis you have chosen. This does not mean for you to choose other stories. You are expected to provide textual support from all of these sources and cite them correctly according to the MLA format. A work cited page is also required.
1. Choose a poem or poems or a short story that we have covered in class. Demonstrate how the text you've chosen is an example of Modernist ideology. What qualities does it have that categorize it as such?
2. Choose a poem or poems or a short story that we have covered in class. Demonstrate how the text you've chosen is an example of a tragedy. What qualities does it have that categorize it as such?
3. Choose a poem or poems or a short story that we have covered in class. Demonstrate how the text you've chosen is an example of Naturalist ideology. What qualities does it have that categorize it as such?
How to submit the assignment:
• Submit this assignment as a single DOC, DOCX, PDF or RTF file (No WPD files will be accepted). Late work will not be accepted.
Part 2: In separate 250 word posts, respond to two of the following:
A) What is the central image and how does it work in "Anecdote of a Jar"? What does it symbolize and how is it a modernist idea?
B) Both "Thirteen Ways of Looking a Blackbird" and "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock" deal with the idea of perception and subjectivity. What other similarities do you see? What are the major differences in how this idea is presented?
C) Wallace Stevens' poem "The Idea of Order at Key West" focuses on the "idea" of man "ordering" nature - here, through song. The woman "sang beyond the genius of the sea" - she gives the sea a voice. How does she do this? How does the narrator struggle with understanding this? How is the woman's voice different from "lights" in the second to last stanza when it comes to "ordering"?