Consider the following questions:
1. In Thomas gray's poem, " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, " how do the dead differ from other heroic poems we have read? What major obstacle prevented them from improving their lives?
2. How do Milton's views in Areopagitica reflect the growing cry of "Freedom" and demand for " liberty" in the early 1700,s?
3. Samuel Johnson wrote that on man could " assume the dignity of a writer by description copied from description, by imitations borrowed borrowed from imitations." What did he mean and how could That apply to today and the option that some 21st college students may choose to use?
4. Why did the narrator in Donne's poem "The sun Rising " not want to "...eclipse... [the sun] with wink and cloud [his] powerful beams?"
5. According to Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare's conclusion to King Lear breaks with most audience's expectations about justice. Explain why
6. In Donne's "Valediction : Forbidding Mourning, " he uses an extraordinary comparison of a compass to the love that he and his wife share. Why was This an appropriate conceit considering that the speaker was preparing to leave his love? What other meaning might the compass have represented?