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coursework piece you are now working on, and it must appear
at the top of your essay. To answer it successfully you will
need to write about each of the poems we have studied together.
For some of them there will not be much to say, but that does
not mean you can ignore them.
The poems group as follows:
- The Pasture by Robert Frost
- delight, no wisdom.
- Self Pity by D.H. Lawrence
- wisdom, no delight
- The Selfsame Song by Thomas
Hardy - delight leading to despair (but some would argue that
the delight leads to the same kind of wisdom as is found in
Blackberry Picking, & Nothing
Gold can Stay)
- Dust of Snow, Unharvested,
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert
Frost
- Blackberry Picking by Seamus
Heaney
- The Selfsame Song by Thomas
Hardy (arguably) - delight leading to wisdom. A
Living by D H Lawrence - wisdom leading to delight
Write about each poem in turn, analysing
what in the language conveys delight and whether there is wisdom.
Compare poems which contain similar wisdom.
- You MUST analyse language, explaining why
certain words and phrases communicate delight or express wisdom.
- You MUST quote relevant words and lines
from the poems you are writing about.
- Write in sentences.
- Each poem needs a paragraph of its own.
- End with a conclusion. Don't just stop.
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