Short Essay Two, Due October 1

                                                                                                                                 

Short Essay Two: Yeats, Eliot, Pound, and Stein

We read and studied four poets in this unit: WB Yeats, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein. They all knew each other and were influenced by each other, although Yeats was the oldest. In your one page single-spaced essay, choose two poets (and one poem by each) to compare and contrast. You are free to choose any poem, not only the ones represented in our required reading. Think about poetic technique (how they write, their approach to language, etc.) and also what they write (themes, ideas, etc.) You must use direct quotations from the poems. During Monday’s class we’re going to talk briefly about how writing about poetry is slightly different than writing about other literary forms.

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