Write Like a Modernist Over the course of the next several days, you will complete a writing assignment. In the assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of the tenets of modernist literature by rewriting a Romantic poem in a way that incorporates typically modernist qualities in terms of language, style, literary elements, and themes. The […]
Analyzing Romantic Poetry In this task, you will closely examine a poem from the Romantic period. You will then write an essay that explains the poem by presenting a claim about it and providing an argument to support the claim. Your essay will also include an analysis of how specific elements affect the poem as a whole. […]
How are the principles discussed in William Wordsworth’s “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads represented in the assigned Romantic poetry selections (William Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Mont Blanc,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” and George Gordon, Lord Byron’s “Darkness”)? […]
