the essay’s topic is approved by the professor but you will need to work on the comments and improve the quality of the work. rewrite the essay in a manner that looks like my writing but more focused and professional.
General Guidelines
Ø Your final paper needs to be 5-6 pages, not including
the Works Cited.
Ø Your paper must follow all the rules of expository
writing
Ø Your paper must incorporate at least 3 critical
sources.
Ø Your thesis must be approved by me no later than
July 1st.
Ø You may not proceed with your writing until your
thesis is approved.
Submission Deadline: July 14th, 9 am, uploaded on Moodle.
Note: All the poems are built on the compare &
contrast principle, with the exception of the last one.
1) The role of form in two or three ecopoems. Poems you
may choose from:
a. Hillman’s “The American Burying Beetle”
b. Levertov’s “In California: Morning, Evening, Late January”
c. Joy Harjo’s “We Must Call a Meeting”
d. Quinn Carver Johnson’s “Dinosaurs”
e. David Barker, “Peril Sonnet”
2) The figure of Odysseus in Amorak Huey’s “We Were All
Odysseus in Those Days” and Rachel Tzvia Back’s “After the War”
3) The role of personification in Denise Levertov’s
“Overheard Over S.E Asia” and Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
4) What we learn from trees as represented in “Speaking
Tree” by Joy Harjo and Ada Limon’s “It Begins with the Trees”
5) Feminist revisionary mythmaking & anti-war poetics
in Rachel Tzvia Back’s “I want to follow Naomi.” Note: this poem is in
conversation with the Book of Ruth and Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “What Changes” (https://poets.org/poem/what-changes)
Link for the main poem
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/poetry/i-want-follow-naomi-rachel-tzvia-back
Link for poems to rely on in writing the paper
- https://poets.org/poem/what-changes
- https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ruth-full-text