Here is a listing of the readings to choose from. In the paper the comparison has to come from three sources as a comparison. Please feel free to choose from a list of the following.
Readings
1. Read the following chapters, stories, and poems in the text, literature, Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.
• Toni Cade Bambara - "The Lesson," p.427
• William Faulkner - "A Rose for Emily," p.79
• Plot and Structure - Flannery O'Connor - "Good Country People," p.188
• Character - Toni Cade Bambara - "The Lesson," p.427
• Setting - Bobbie Ann Mason - "Shiloh," p.67
• Point of View - William Faulkner - "A Rose for Emily," p.79
• Language and Style - Kate Chopin - "The Story of an Hour," p.38
• Gwendolyn Brooks - "We Real Cool," p.1079
• Woody Guthrie - "This Land is Your Land," p. 897
• Yehuda Amichai - "A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention," p. 1045
• Emily Dickinson in Context (6 poems)
• "I died for Beauty," p.926
• "I dwell in Possibility," p.931
• "I heard a fly buzz," p.926
• "I reckon " when I count at all," p.929
• "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant," p.938
• "This was a Poet," p.925
• William Shakespeare
• "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" p.874
• "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes," p.1186
• "My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun, p.1187
• Marc Doty - "Golden Retrievals," p.1031
• Robert Frost - "The Road not Taken," p.808
• Theodore Roethke - "My Papa's Waltz," p.773
• James Wright - "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island Minnesota," p.1217
• Kate Chopin - "The Story of an Hour," p.38
• Flannery O'Connor - "The Life You Save May be Your Own," p.223
• W.H. Auden - "Musee es Beaux Arts," c. 3
• George Gordon, Lord Byron - "She walks in beauty," p.1111
• Octavio Paz - "The Street," p.1052
• Emily Dickinson - "Because I could not stop for Death," p.810
• Elizabeth Bishop - "The Fish," p.1069
• Marc Doty - "Golden Retrievals," p.1031
• Robert Frost - "The Road not Taken," p.808
• Langston Hughes - "Theme for English B," p.1009
• John Keats - "When I have fears that I may cease to be p.1131
• D.H. Lawrence - "When I read Shakespeare," p.1152
• Anne Bradstreet - "To my Dear and Loving Husband," p.1077
• John Milton - "When I Consider How my Light is Spent," p.1161
• Rainer Maria Pilke - "The Cadet Picture of my Father," p.1179
• Edger Allan Poe - "The Raven," p.1173
• Theodore Roethke - "My Papa's Waltz," p.773
• Theodore Roethke - "The Root Cellar," p.1181
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Readings taken -:
1) Edgar Allan Poe – “The Raven,”
2) W.H. Auden – "Musee es Beaux Arts,"
3) Toni Cade Bambara – "The Lesson,”