ENGLISH 2328 Essay #2 (Take-Home Essay) Early Modern Poetry and Fiction DIRECTIONS: One way of thinking critically about literature is to connect two (or more) works of literature and note similarities and/or differences. As you connect two works of literature studied so far in our course, discover meaningful connecting points. As you develop connecting points, you might want to think in terms of (1) literary terms (2) critical approaches, and/or (3) literary movements within American realism. The literary terms include such language as conflict, climax, static/dynamic, symbol, etc. The critical approaches studied so far include (1) historical critique, (2) biographical critique, (3) formal elements, and (4) feminist critique. The literary movements within American realism include (1) frontier humor, (2) psychological realism, (3) regionalism, and (4) naturalism. In this unit we also studied the Harlem Renaissance. Another resource for connecting points is your own imagination! Select one of the critical thinking topics from the list below. Develop one connecting point in great length or develop two to four related connecting points. Respond in a 1,000 word thesis-controlled essay. Double space your essay in Times New Roman point 12. Give your essay an engaging title and include an introductory paragraph with a thesis. Use strong topic sentences for your body paragraphs. As part of your paragraph development, include six (or more) judiciously selected direct quotes (partial sentence, full sentence, or blocked format for quotes more than four typed lines) for support and evidence and document the quotes with correct MLA in-text citation and works cited entry. Up to 50% of your essay may come from your sources. This essay requires that you document from only primary sources. There are some exceptions for secondary sources such as class notes and author biographies if you choose to use a biographical approach as one of your connecting points. You might also want to include some material you find on the Harlem Renaissance to include in a connecting point. You might also find feminist studies. You might also need to define terms like “the blues.” These secondary sources MUST be documented. You should not incorporate any critical sources (interpretative) in this essay. Use the manuscript mechanics we noted on the sample essay on Mark Twain. TOPICS (select only one): 1. Connect the lives and poetry of Langston Hughes and Robert Frost. (No more than one body paragraph connecting their lives. Concentrate on connections you see in their poetry. Be sure to refer to lines from specific poems.) 2. Connect Arna Bontemps’ “A Summer Tragedy” with Willa Cather’s “Neighbor Rosicky.” 3. Connect Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” with Arna Bontemps’ “A Summer Tragedy.” 4. Connect Zora Neal Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits” with Charles Chesnutt’s “The Wife of His Youth.” 5. Connect Zora Neal Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits” with Kate Chopin’s “The Storm.” 6. Connect Willa Cather’s “Neighbor Rosicky” with Robert Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man.” 7. Connect Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” with Arna Bontemps’ “A Summer Tragedy. 8. Connect Robert Frost’s two poems “Design” with “Once by the Pacific.” 9. Connect Robert Frost’s three poems poems “Acquainted with the Night,” “Design,” and “Once by the Pacific.” 10. Connect Robert Frost’s “Death of the Hired Man” with Arna Bontemps’ “A Summer Tragedy.” 11. Connect Langston Hughes’ “Hey” with Robert Frost’s “The Pasture.” 12. Connect Langston Hughes’ “Dream Deferred” with Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” 13. Connect Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” with Sui Sin Far’s “In the Land of the Free.” 14. Connect Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” with Hamlin Garland’s “Under the Lion’s Paw.” 15. Connect Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” with Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” 16. Connect Mary Wilkins Freeman’s “The Revolt of Mother” with Arna Bontemps’ “A Summer Tragedy.” 17. Connect three poems by Robert Frost that reveal his “dark side.” How do you define “the dark side”? 18. Connect three poems by Langston Hughes that reveal he is “an American dreamer.” 19. Connect Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” with “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” 20. Connect F. Scott Fitzgerald’s biography with his story “Babylon Revisited.” 21. Connect F. Scott Fitzgerald’s biography with his story “Winter Dreams.” 22. Connect F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” with “Winter Dreams.” 23. Connect Ernest Hemingway’s biography with his story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” 24. Connect Ernest Hemingway’s biography with “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.” 25. Connect Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” with “A Clean, WellLighted Place.” 26. Connect Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” with Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat.” 27. Connect Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams.” 28. Connect Henry James’ Daisy Miller: A Study with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams.”