Essay # 2
Must be turned in no later than the beginning of class on the due date. After class has started
your paper will be considered late and it will be automatically docked by a full letter grade.
15% of your total grade
Prompt
Write a 1,500-word essay, using two outside sources to support your argument, discussing a
theme, symbol, motif etc… in one of the poems read in class. In this essay explore how and to
what extent the theme, symbol, motif, etc… is depicted and developed in the story and how it
affects the story on a whole.
Instructions
Write a 1,500-word essay on one of the poems read and discussed in class. Use the
standard MLA format, double–spacing, and set margins to one inch. Use quotations from the
text, as well as your two outside sources, to support your argument - include a Works Cited page.
Remember, your sources cannot be from online sources.
For the thematic paper you MUST have a thesis argument with supportive evidence. I am
looking for intelligent insight beyond class discussion, original thought, ability to support your
argument with textual evidence, critical analysis of the literature, clear and sophisticated prose,
grammar and style, and a lack of errors and typos.