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Questiоn 1: Fоr this questiоn, you аre given а short literаry text (in this case, a poem) and some contextual information. Please follow the five-step process outlined below. (20 points) The five steps are as follows: Paraphrase. In one or two sentences, restate in your own words, as clearly and directly as possible, the basic content of the text: what situation it literally describes, what action or actions (if any) take place in that situation, who or what performs those actions, and why. (Use complete sentences.) (3 points) Observe. Reading through the text again, identify and list at least 4 features or qualities of the text’s language that help express or shape its meaning or meanings. Your list may include any kind of elements that catch your attention and that you think are important, including descriptive details, structural and stylistic patterns, choices and arrangements of words, and changes in rhythm, tone, or emphasis. (Be specific in stating the items on your list. For example: the text is organized in a particular way; or, this particular word, idea, or sound is repeated; or, the poem’s vocabulary changes at this particular moment; or this word is significant, suggestive, or ambiguous in such and such a way.) (Use a bulleted or numbered list for your observations; complete sentences are not necessary.) (3 points) Contextualize. From the information provided in the paragraph of background information—or from your own prior knowledge—list at least 1 fact about the author’s writing or about the historical or social circumstances of his time that you think might be relevant to an interpretation of the text. (Use a bulleted or numbered list for your contextual fact; complete sentences are not necessary.) (1 point) Analyze. Select 4 or 5 of the items you have listed in steps two and three and state in one or two complete sentences, for each of the textual or context details you have selected, what you think that detail adds to the effect or meaning of the text. (Use a bulleted or numbered list.) (3 points) Argue. Based on your work of observation, contextualization, and analysis in steps 1-4, write a short one or two-paragraph interpretation of the text that conveys your understanding of the text’s meaning and purpose. Make sure to state clearly the main idea or thesis of your interpretation and support that thesis by showing how it is based on what you observed and analyzed in the previous steps. Remember, your thesis must be an arguable proposition. (Use complete sentences.) (10 points) Context: Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Born Oswestry, Shropshire. Educated at Birkenhead Institute and Shrewsbury Technical College. From the age of nineteen Owen wanted to be a poet and immersed himself in poetry, being especially impressed by Keats and Shelley. He wrote almost no poetry of importance until he saw action in France in 1917. He was deeply attached to his mother to whom most of his 664 letters are addressed. (She saved every one.) He was a committed Christian and became lay assistant to the vicar of Dunsden near Reading 1911-1913 – teaching Bible classes and leading prayer meetings – as well as visiting parishioners and helping in other ways. From 1913 to 1915 he worked as a language tutor in France. He felt pressured by the propaganda to become a soldier and volunteered on 21st October 1915. He spent the last day of 1916 in a tent in France joining the Second Manchesters. He was full of boyish high spirits at being a soldier. Within a week he had been transported to the front line in a cattle wagon and was "sleeping" 70 or 80 yards from a heavy gun which fired every minute or so. He was soon wading miles along trenches two feet deep in water. Within a few days he was experiencing gas attacks and was horrified by the stench of the rotting dead; his sentry was blinded, his company then slept out in deep snow and intense frost till the end of January. That month was a profound shock for him: he now understood the meaning of war. "The people of England needn't hope. They must agitate," he wrote home. He escaped bullets until the last week of the war, but he saw a good deal of front-line action: he was blown up, concussed and suffered shell-shock. At Craiglockhart, the psychiatric hospital in Edinburgh, he met Siegfried Sassoon who inspired him to develop his war poetry. He was sent back to the trenches in September, 1918 and in October won the Military Cross by seizing a German machine-gun and using it to kill a number of Germans. On 4th November he was shot and killed near the village of Ors. The news of his death reached his parents home as the Armistice bells were ringing on 11 November 1918. (Source: http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/Owena.html#short-biog_owen) Text: Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est (1917-18) Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines* that dropped behind. *explosive artillery shellsGas!* Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, *chlorine gas, used in World War IFitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . . Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.* *It is sweet and right to die for one’s country. (Quoting the Roman lyric poet, Horace, 65-8 BCE)
A student sаys, "All prоtists аre mоre clоsely relаted to one another than they are to plants, fungi, or animals." Which response is most accurate?