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15. Choose your favorite poem from the anthology and discuss why it appeals to you both
formally and thematically. Use specific examples from the poem to explain how it
works for you.
16. Compare and contrast the theme of love in William Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII,
Sonnet LXXIII, Sonnet XCIV, and Sonnet CXVI. How is it treated differently from
sonnet to sonnet?
17. Compare and contrast the ways in which Nashe and Thomas treat the subject of death
in “Adieu, Farewell Earth’s Bliss” and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.”
18. Compare and contrast the message to women carried in “Song” by Edmund Waller and
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” by Robert Herrick.
19. Compare William Blake’s “London” to “Composed upon a Westminster Bridge, Sept.
3, 1802” by William Wordsworth. How do the authors’ views of the same city differ?
How are their techniques in communicating this the same?
20. Compare and contrast the ways in which A.E. Housman and Wilfred Owen deal with
the subject of the death of young people.
21. E.E. Cummings is know as a radically modern poet, whose writing challenged
conventional poetic techniques. Identify the conventional techniques he challenges in
his “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” and discuss both why you think he challenged
them, and what impact they have on the reader.
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