Short essay-Pick three out of the following four. Write at least two paragraphs for each essay.
1. Here is Pablo Neruda's "if you Forget me." Explicate the poem and explain why this is also a poem about his nation.
I want you to know one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you, little by little.
If suddenly you forget me, do not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you.
If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, remember that on that day, at that hour,
I shall lift my arms and my roots will set off to seek another land.
But
if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me, ah my love, ah my own, in me all that fire is repeated, in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, my love feeds on your love, beloved, and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.
2. How are Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff literary doubles?
3. Why is "The Yellow Wallpaper" considered feminist literature? Use specifics of the short story to make your points.
4. Below is a work of art called "Painting" by Willem de Kooning. Examine it and use visual language to describe what the painting is doing.