For your second essay in this class, you will spend some time reflecting on one of the literary works assigned in the class from a Christian perspective. You will need to choose a different work than you used for your analysis essay. Also, since the example attached is about The Dream of the Rood, you will not be allowed to write on this selection. So choose some other work from the course.
Steps in the Process
Choose a work assigned in this course that appeals to you from an emotional or aesthetic perspective and write a thesis that notes how the work reflects upon goodness, truth and beauty. Write in third person academic tone. I chose Thomas Gray, “Elegy in a Country Churchyard”
Read the work several times (maybe read parts of it aloud) making note of the features that seem particularly beautiful, inspiring, emotional, meaningful, or true. Consider the following questions:
How does the work help us better value goodness?
How does the work help us better understand Truth?
How does the work help us better recognize and appreciate beauty?
Focus your thoughts into an argument about how the work of literature helps us better understand aspects of the Christian faith in relation to the ideals of goodness, truth and beauty.
Review the attached checklist and the example so that you understand the requirements of this paper
Compose a thesis-driven, organized essay presenting your argument and using textual support for your points.
Notes
Although your essay will be thesis-driven, it is not a literary analysis. Do not simply pick a theme or a literary device and make an argument about that aspect of the work.
It will almost certainly be easier to do this assignment well if you choose a shorter piece of literature or a small section of a long work, rather than, for instance, the entirety of Julius Caesar.
You should not do any significant research on the literary work, since the assignment is on your own reflections about it. So that means NO commentaries, summaries or editor’s notes, even those provided in the course. Your essay should be your work alone. You should be using significant quotes from the work, and you may use the bible and/or a dictionary, but that is all. Nothing else.
Style and Length
Your essay should be written in correct MLA format, and it should be between 1000-1500 words long.
For your second essay in this class, you will spend some time reflecting on one of the literary works assigned in the class from a Christian perspective.
You should not do any significant research on the literary work, since the assignment is on your own reflections about it.
Style and Length
Your essay should be written in correct MLA format, and it should be between 1000-1500 words long.
Please throw in some bible quotes
