WHAT:
4-Page Paper Due Wednesday, November 11.
4 Pages, 1.5 spacing, duplex print OR emailed to me (turnincoon or my regular email)
4 Pages is at least 1600 words.
WHEN:
2 Pages of draft are due by class time, Monday November 9.
HOW:
• Using Wallis’s essay as a model, or Manthon’s concept from CITYterm of “writing from need”, your essay MAY combine personal narrative with close reading of the literature (Plath’s poetry, poem or poems)
• You may also choose to do a very in-depth unpacking of a single poem, but not one we have read and discussed in class. I have seen some excellent 4-6 page papers on a single Plath poem, so this is a legitimate challenge.
• You may find two poems that you believe lend themselves well to compare/contrast. Perhaps one that is in what Freida Hughes calls the “Ariel voice” and one that is not? Don’t be afraid to do a little research into back story– there is a quite a lot of material about these poems,this poet. Anything you find, though, that did not come out of your own brain all by itself MUST, MUST, MUST be cited!!!!!!!!
• As before, a motif. But exercise caution– don’t be too broad. “Nature.” “Ted and Sylvia’s marriage” “Death” “Suicide”–all too big. This is a 4-5 page paper, not a master’s thesis. Scale accordingly.
