IDENTIFY THE WORK IN WHICH THE NAME OR PHRASE APPEARS AND ANALYZE ITS THEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE

IDENTIFY THE WORK IN WHICH THE NAME OR PHRASE APPEARS AND ANALYZE ITS THEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE

IDENTIFY THE WORK IN WHICH THE NAME OR PHRASE APPEARS AND ANALYZE ITS THEMATIC SIGNIFICANCE

NOTE!! ONLY USE THE READINGS PROVIDED AS REFERENCES! DO NOT USE ANY OTHER RESOURCES! Read all instructions carefully. Ask for clarification if you are not unsure of any directions. Start early. Read the posted midterm tips. Proofread your work. Submit your work on time. Grammar and usage count! Part 1: Identifications (20 points Choose five of the following to respond to. Identify the work in which the name or phrase appears and analyze its thematic significance. Your answers should be brief (two or three wellconstructed sentences), but comprehensive. Please do NOT write short essays. It is possible to be exacting and explicit while respecting the sensible limits of several sentences. Four different authors should be represented in your responses. 1. “’Aren’t you ashamed, the mother yelled at her…’.” 2. Mathilda 3. “Now truly she was furious.” 4. “A yellow smell” 5. “’What is it, little girl?’ he said.” 6. The Rest Cure 7. “’The key is down by )the front steps, under a plantain leaf!’” 8. “Believe me, I loved you all.” 9. “Somebody who should have been born is gone.” 10. “And of course, after that, he was well.” 11. “’Tis the majority/In this, as all, prevails.” 12. “Those zinnias/want you.” 13. “Muy macho/this guy….” 14. “She listens/ to the desert….” 15. “the roadrunner, a busy fidgety type” Part 2: Short Essay (30 points) Choose onepassage from the following list of quotationsto respond to in total.NOTE: ONLY ONE response in total – not one response from each group.Identify the speaker, when appropriate, andanalyzethe significance of the passage in terms of the context in which it appears and the insight it provides into the work’s themes. Your answer should be approximately 150 words.  Again,NOTE: CHOOSE ONLY ONE QUOTATION. In other words, if you choose to write about Sexton, choose one quotation from the Sexton poem. If you choose to write about Gilman, choose one quotation from “The Yellow Wallpaper,” etc. Keep our themes in mind. Check your due dates pages for themes, as well. Sexton and Brooks(choose one quotation by one author) 1. “Just as the earth puckered its mouth….” 2. “Or say what you meant,/you coward….” 3. “Abortions will not let you forget.” 4. “…your tumults, your/marriages, aches, and your deaths….” Gilman 1. “One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.” 2. “ John says if I don’t pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall. But I don’ t want to go there at all. I had a friend who was in his hands once, and she says he is jus like John and my brother, only more so!” 3.”I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?” Krysl, Mora, Brown (choose one quotation by one author) 1. “I hire a coffin any catholic would be proud of.” 10/18/2015 Choose five of the following to respond to. Identify the work in which the name or phrase appears and analyze its thematic significance. Your answers sh… http://academicassistersblog.com/choose­five­of­the­following­to­respond­to­identify­the­work­in­which­the­name­or­phrase­appears­and­analyze­its­themati… 4/6 2. “And remember old Mrs.Sanchez? Three mornings a week she needs you—yes, you— to walk her to the taxi, 3. “She listens to their stories, and she listens to the desert, always the desert.” 4. “’You are seeking, that’s why you are here. You have come to experience this five-thousand-year-old-system of healing. It works, although so subtly and slowly that Westerners often overlook its results’.” Part 3: Essay (50 points) Choose one of the following on which to write an essay of approximately 300 words. Provide textual evidence to support your claims (direct quotations from the texts). Check your syllabus and course discussions to help you focus your responses. Be specific and be sure to develop an appropriate workable thesis. Make sure you determine what you think each author’s meaning is when you analyze aspects of the texts. (Meaning = theme). Correct grammar usage counts!!!! Important Note: Please show some range and use a different author in Part 3 from the one you considered in Part 2. 1. Language and Symbol Write an essay in which you analyze one author’s particular use of language – including symbols, metaphors, and images. How does the language deliver/elucidate/create the meaning or themes of the work? A good choice for this essay would be: Sexton, Brooks, Krysl, Gilman, and your first day poetry packet authors (including Auden, Dickinson, Williams). If you’re feeling confident, any  of our authors can be used here. 2. Gender Analyze the roles of women in one of our texts. How are women portrayed and what does this portrayal indicate about the author’s perspective? Consider how the work reflects and illuminates social conditions, the uses of power, and relations between the sexes. Williams, Brooks, Sexton, Gilman, and any of our birthing narratives (non-key texts Pollack, Harjo, Derricotte. Verosick, will work well here). 3. The Healing Arts Analyze the description of illness and healing in one of our texts. What is the nature of the illness described? What is the nature of the treatment? What is the author’s perspective on the effectiveness of the treatment described? What values, social norms, and/or psycho-social dynamics does the author reveal in his/her depiction of the healing process? Williams, Bulgakov, Krysl, Gilman, and Brown, Mora, Harjo, Voget and Mee (some of these are authors non-key texts) would all be good choices here. 1. Illness and Society Analyze the social influences on illness and wellness in one of our texts. How does the society itself – social norms, social attitudes, social values, social structures – impact health? How does the author present the conflict between the individual and the society? What ails the protagonist? What is the author’s perspective on how the individual is influenced by society? Is the author critical of societal values? Does the author seem to advocate for any kind of change? (Gilman, Krysl, Brooks, and Brown would be good choices here).