TERM PAPER

E20B TERM PAPER
(BASED ON MODULE ONE: EARLY ROMANTICS)

Answer ONE (1) of the following questions:

1. "Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence" (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell). Through close reference to the selections which you have read from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, discuss the light shed on his poetry by Blake’s comment.

2. "A revolutionary departure from preceding poetic norms." Through close reference to those poems of his which you have studied, discuss this assessment of both the form and content of either Wordsworth’s or Coleridge’s poetry.

3. Coleridge argued that the symbol is "characterised by the translucence of the eternal through and in the temporal." Through close reference to those poems of his which you have studied, examine the role of symbolism in either Coleridge’s or Wordsworth’s poetry.

4. By writing a close textual analysis of Coleridge’s "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison," show how this poem is typical (or not) of what M. H. Abrams terms the ‘Greater Romantic Lyric’ in the essay of the same name.

Advice:

Deadline: Thursday, November 1, 2001: 7 pm Late submissions will be penalised; ALL ESSAYS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO ME IN PERSON

Length: 1,500 - 2,000 words (I will not read anything beyond this limit)

the paper should be type-written
the paper should be double-spaced
pages should be numbered
please insert a word count at the end

Documentation: all references in your essay must be correctly documented

Bibliography: your essay must be accompanied by a correctly compiled List of Works Consulted

Please Note:

Essays must be written according to the guidelines laid out in The MLA Handbook. These guidelines are summarised in the Faculty Essay-Writing Guidelines and in my own Essay Writing Guide. Poorly presented and documented essays will be penalised.
Please do not submit your paper in any plastic folder or any other kind of covering: the paper itself is sufficient.
For advice on essay writing in general, see my set of resources entitled Essay Writing, Marking, Reading, Etc.
You should keep a copy of the term paper for yourself in case the one submitted gets lost.
You should not merely regurgitate material drawn from my handouts: essays should demonstrate evidence of engagement with the primary texts listed as required reading.
Since Module I is tested by this assignment, the final exam will test knowledge of the remaining two modules: Module II and Module III.