E30A TERM PAPER
(BASED ON MODULE ONE: FROM ROMANTICISM TO MODERNISM)

Answer ONE (1) of the following questions:

1. "Modernist poetry is Janus-faced, looking towards both the past and the future."  Discuss with reference to TWO poets studied.
2. "Hardy is a transitional figure in the history of British poetry."  Do you agree with this assessment?  If so, why?
3. To what extent would you agree with the view that much of Robert Frost’s poetry is devoted to ‘unsaying’ the Romantics?
4. Through close reference to the poetry of any TWO of the World War I poets which you have studied this semester, discuss the view that their poems represent, in terms of both content and form, a "grotesque parody of established Romantic norms."
5. Some have argued that Yeats's early poems are "unabashedly Romantic."  What features of his early poetry would justify such a description?
6. Perform a close reading of a poem by one of the poets studied in the first module but not discussed in class.

ADVICE

Deadline: 6 pm, Thursday February 27, 2003 Late submissions will be penalised; ALL ESSAYS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO ME IN PERSON

Length: approx. 10 pages (I will not read anything that exceeds 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

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

Advice:

• Essays must be written according to the guidelines laid out in The MLA Handbook.  These guidelines are summarised in the Faculty of Humanities and Education 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 Resources.
• You should keep an extra copy of the term paper in case the one submitted gets lost for any reason.
• 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: From Romanticism to Modernism is tested by this assignment, the final exam will test knowledge of the remaining two modules: Module II: High Modernism and Module III: Late Modernism.