1. To Marguerite -Continued by Mathew Arnold. How does imagery help evoke emotion in this poem? Choose three images from the poem and describe the emotions that the images evoke. Explain how the images are onnected to the emotions.
2. How does “London” reflect the issues and characteristics of the Romantic period? Describe three ways in which the poem discusses or comments on the problems or issues. Your response should be 1-2 paragraphs long.
3. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has been criticized for portraying Africa through the eyes o a European colonist rather than trough African eyes. What images does Conrad use to portray the setting of the Congo River? How does the setting imply the clash between European and African cultures or world views? How might Africans portray Africa differently than Conrad’s Marlow? Choose two images from passage and explain how they could portray a potential clash between the cultures. Your response should be at least 2 pragraphs long.
4. There is a great debate among literary critics about whether or not the historical context of a piece of literature is important in understanding the literature. Some critics argue that you can only fully understand a piece of literature if you understand the historical events that were on going when it was being written. Others argue that each piece of literature is independent of its historical context and you should not have to look for information outside the text to understand it. What do you think? Write a brief essay in which you agree or disagree with the statement that literature can best be understood in its historical context. Choose a piece of literature for each time period that we’ve studied during this half of the course, (Romantic, Victorian, and Modern World), and support your opinion in terms of this literature you’ve chosen. Romantic-“The Chimney Sweeper” by Blake, Victorian-“My Last Duchess” by Browning: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43768/my-last-duchess, Modern World-”The Second Coming” by Dylan Thomas.
