Final Paper
This is your capstone piece of literary analysis. There are a few ways you can approach this paper.
- You can focus on a particular poetic movement, contextualize its emergence and make some kind of argument regarding its history, socio-political commentary, or its lasting influence. For this approach, you would cite several poets, those we have discussed in class as well as those you have found on your own.
- You can focus on a poet and make an argument that would further contextualize her or him within a poetic movement we’ve discussed.
- Or you might take a more interesting route, and resituate a poet, arguing that a poet is not really part of X movement but really more like those poets in Y movement.
- Or you might have an idea of your own about poetry and poetics you’ve been thinking about this semester. Discuss the idea by me, and so long as I approve, you can do what just about anything.
Because this your final paper, I expect a thesis-driven argument that shows careful research and logically sound and rhetorically effective use of sources.
Aim to impress me.