Assignments

__**Assignment One **__

**~****Consider the quotes below.**

“Scars are souvenirs you never lose. The past is never far.”-Goo Goo Dolls "The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.-Flora Whittemore **"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything."-Win Borden** "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."-Ralph Waldo Emerson  "He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise"-Oscar Wilde

**~Then consider the four poems we have read this week.**

"If" by Rudyard Kipling "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats "The lotos Eaters" by Alfred Lord Tennyson "Time Long Past" by Percy Bysshe Shelley "Pain-has an Element of Blank" by Emily Dickiso**n**


 * After analyzing about the quotes and reflecting upon the poems we have read, pick one quote and one poem. In a well-developed essay, compare or contrast the poem with the quote: What message are they both trying to convey? If the quote's message contradicts the poem's message, how so? Why are these messages important? How do the quote and the poem affect you or relate to your own life? **

**I will be looking to see how you shape your ideas and provide a detailed analysis when working with two different sources.****To help you out I have attached one of my old college essays. This should serve as a model for you on a very basic level. In this essay I compared two NOVELS, but I developed an argument, and used two different sources, in much the same way as you all should. For THIS assignment, however, you will be comparing a poem and a quote. Use this essay as a guide, and a guide ONLY.** 

**Be sure to**

• Provide a valid interpretation of the quote and the poem that allow for a powerful analysis. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Compare/Contrast the poem and the quote <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Indicate how the quote/poem relate to your own life <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Organize your ideas in a unified and coherent manner <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">• Follow the conventions of standard written English