Written Response Literature often reflects culture. In essay…
Written Response Literature often reflects culture. In essay form, discuss how at least six of the readings from this class reflects a cultural concern of the time day that is still relevant today. Tip: Think about how cultural concerns (values and beliefs, language, government, class, relationships, and/or lifestyles, for example) shape literary elements such as setting, character development, themes, or literary forms. Requirements: Add a brief introductory (opening) paragraph BEFORE you begin discussing individual readings. Discuss the idea of how literature reflects culture. At the end of this paragraph, mention the six assigned literary works you have chosen to discuss. Discuss six literary works assigned in this course–no outside readings. Each works should have its own body paragraph. At least two of your chosen literary works should be longer assigned readings: Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Othello, and/or “Modest Proposal” (two). At least one of your chosen works should come from each era we have studied. In other words, chose works from different parts of the class. See the reading list at the end of this question. For your closing paragraph, answer this question: How are the literary works we have studied still culturally relevant or important today? Semester Readings Updated These are most of your major readings for the semester. Alterations might be made from module to module. Introduction to the Middle Ages Beowulf Canterbury Tales Chaucer Overview; Canterbury Tales General Prologue ; Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale; Pardoner’s Prologue & Tale; Knight’s Tale Summary (handout). “The Early Sixteenth Century” Selected Renaissance Poems & Shakespearean Sonnets–Selections include Marlowe’s “Passionate Shepherd” , Raleigh’s “Nymph’s Reply”, and Campion’s “There Is a Garden in Her Face,” Wyatt’s “Whoso List to Hunt” Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”) Shakespeare’s Othello 17th Seventeenth Century The Metaphysical Poets John Donne’s Holy Sonnets (Priority Sonnets–“Holy Sonnet 10” (“Death Be Not Proud”) & “Holy Sonnet 14” (“Batter My Heart”); Donne’s Secular Poems (Priority Poems–“Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” “The Flea”); and Donne’s “Meditation 17” Ben Jonson (Priority Poems–“On My First Son,” “Ode To Himself” & “To My Book”) Mary Wroth (Priority Poems–“Am I Thus Conquered?” & “Strange Labyrinth”) George Herbert (Priority Poems: “Easter Wings” & “The Pulley”) Robert Herrick (Priority Poems: “To The Virgins,” “The Vine” & “Upon Julia’s Clothes”) Andrew Marvell (Priority Poems: “Coy Mistress” & “Mower Against Gardens”) John Milton 1785–“On Shakespeare” , “Lycidas” , “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”, “On The Late Massacre in Piedmont”; Online Summary of Paradise Lost; Epic Overview from Beowulf discussion. “The Restoration & The Eighteenth Century” Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” Alexander Pope “Rape of the Lock” Popular Ballads–“Lord Randall,” “Bonny Barbara Allen,” “The Wife of Usher’s Well,” and “Sir Patrick Spence”
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