"Question #1 - After completing the required readings for this week, discuss how you see the theme of creating art developing in the different stories and poems. What did you learn about the human impulse to create? Give examples from one of the stories and at least two of the poems that you think influenced this theme.
Question #2 - After completing the required readings for this week, what connections have you made between literature and everyday life? Use examples and quotes to support your thoughts from at least three of the readings.
Here are the reading assignments, I have no way to upload them but you can find them on Google.
Answers to each question should be two-three paragraphs minimum. I cannot increase the deadline as that is what time they are due today.
Sherman Alexie - "Indian Education," p.320
Stephen Crane - The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" p.482
Jamaica Kincaid - "Girl," p. 397
Emily Dickinson - "This was a Poet," p.925
May Swenson - "The Universe," p.823
Ferlingetti - "Constantly Risking Absurdity," p.1106