Pleаse perfоrm а full CRIT exercise interpreting the fоllоwing text. Try to limit your time to аbout 1.5 hours but don't worry about it if you need longer. Good luck! 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.) (4 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.) (5 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 3 or 4 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.) (8 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.) (12 points) James Thomson (1700-1748) James Thomson was born at Ednam, near Kelso in Scotland, a son of Thomas Thomson, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife Beatrix (Trotter) on 11th September 1700. He was educated at Jedburgh school, where he began to write poetry, and Edinburgh. In 1725 he went to London as a tutor and met English poets such as Alexander PopeLinks to an external site.. His famous work The Seasons was published in 1730 and he then took the Grand Tour of Europe. His blank verse poem Liberty and play Agamemnon followed. Some of his later plays were banned but Tancred and Sigismunda and Corilanus had long runs. His most remembered composition is probably 'Rule Britannia'. He died unmarried 27th August 1748 at his house at Richmond in Surrey and was buried in St Mary's church there. The first public performance of ‘Rule, Britannia!’ took place in London in 1745, and the poem instantly became popular for a nation trying to expand and ‘rule the waves’. Indeed, from as early as the 15th and 16th centuries, other countries’ dominant exploratory advances encouraged Britain to follow. This was the Age of Discovery, in which Spain and Portugal were the European pioneers, beginning to establish empires. This spurred England, France, and the Netherlands to do the same. James Thomson, "Rule Britannia" When Britain first, at heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain— "Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves." The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turns to tyrants fall; While thou shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. "Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves." Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke; As the loud blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak. "Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves." Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame; All their attempts to bend thee down, Will but arouse thy generous flame, But work their woe and thy renown. "Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves." To thee belongs the rural reign; Thy cities shall with commerce shine; All thine shall be the subject main, And every shore it circles thine. "Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves." The Muses, still with freedom found, Shall to thy happy coast repair: Blest isle! with matchless beauty crowned, And manly hearts to guard the fair. "Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves."
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