EH 232 Discussion Board questions 300 words:
1. Discuss where you see examples of Regionalism in the works of 2 writers you’ve looked at so far. What makes these good examples? Why so? Explain in 350 words minimum using examples from the works as support.
● Read Emily Dickinson’s bio and poems (pages 82-100).
● Read lecture on Emily Dickinson.
• Read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce (page 327).
• Read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” lecture.
• Read “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain (page 104).
• Read “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” lecture.
2. Discuss which work you feel best exemplifies the movement of Realism? Why so? Explain in 350 words minimum using examples from the works as support.
● Read “The Luck of the Roaring Camp” by Bret Harte (page 307).
● Read “The Luck of the Roaring Camp” lecture.
● Read “Editha” by William Dean Howells (316).
● Read “Editha” lecture.
● Read “The Real Thing” by Henry James (page 382).
● Read “The Real Thing” lecture.
● Read “The Beast in the Jungle” by Henry James (page 399).
● Read “The Beast in the Jungle” lecture.
3. Discuss which work you feel best exemplifies the movement of Naturalism. Why so? Explain in 350 words minimum using examples from the works as support.
● Read the following by Wallace Stevens:
“The Snow Man” (page 777)
“A High-Toned Old Christian Woman” (page 777)
“The Emperor of Ice-Cream” (page 778)
“Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” (page 778)
“Sunday Morning” (page 779)
“Anecdote of the Jar” (page 782)
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (page 782)
“The Ideas of Order at Key West” (page 784)
“Of Modern Poetry” (page 785).
● Read Part One and Part Two of Wallace Stevens lectures.
● Read “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams (page 793).
● Read “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot (page 830).
● Read Part One and Part Two of T.S. Eliot lectures.
● Read the following by E.E. Cummings:
“in Just-” (page 962)
O sweet spontaneous” (page 963)
“Buffalo Bill’s” (964)
“i sing of Olaf glad and big” (page 965) “somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond” (page 966)
“anyone lived in a pretty how town” (page 966)
● Read the E.E. Cummings lecture.
4. Discuss what American written work from the last 50 years will one day be considered great American literature, perhaps the kind that is even studied in future American Lit II courses. What makes your chosen work worthy of that? Why so? Explain/defend your choice in 350 words minimum using examples from the work as support.
