Read Percy Shelley’s poem, and identify and analyze his use of irony, satire, and dramatic irony juxtaposition. Ozymandias by: Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—”Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage […]
How does conflict affect community in chinua achebe’s, things fall apart? Description Discuss the ways that conflict affects community (in whatever way you understand that term) in chinua achebe’s, ‘things fall apart’ Discuss, how conflict cements and undos social ties within community, closely use the text to support your arguements using a variety of different […]
Choose one of the poems for this lesson’s readings. Evaluate the poet’s stylistic methods according to the central criteria we noted for modernist poetry (i.e. fragmentation, juxtaposition, allusion). How does your poem’s use of OR lack of these elements change the readability of this work, as compared to Eliot’s The Waste Land or Pound’s Hugh […]
Choose one of the five parts of The Waste Land and define the function of two of the three techniques discussed in this lesson in Eliot (fragmentation, juxtaposition, allusion). How does Eliot make the transition from scene to scene? Does there seem to be one speaker or two? How do we make a sense of […]
