Romantic Poetry
Step 1: Choose Your Topic Find and explain Romantic themes in: The Lamb and The Tyger The Tyger The Divine Image and The Human Abstract The Divine Image The Human Abstract Ozymandias
Topic Sentences 1. Come up with 3-4 topics for body paragraphs. My topics were: 1. Man s attempt to control nature 2. Negative effects on the citizens of London 3. Pollution caused by industrialization 2. Using your ideas, write the topic sentences for your body paragraphs. (These are the Ps of your PQE) My topic sentences were: 1. Immediately in the first stanza the speaker discusses man s attempt to control nature. 2. The constraints civilization has placed on the natural world have an immediate, negative effect on the citizens of London. 3. The soot and other grime associated with the factories and other miracles of the industrial world have taken their toll on the city as well.
Supporting your topics with textual evidence For each topic: Choose 2 or 3 pieces of evidence from the poem (quote) Write them under each topic Include the line number Topic: 1. Man s attempt to control nature 1. Charter d streets (1) 2. Charter d Thames (2) 3. Mind-forged manacles (8) 2. Pollution caused by industrialization 1. Chimney-sweepers (9) 2. Blackening churches (10)
Supporting Sentences Use the work you did yesterday to write the supporting sentences for your body paragraphs. For each idea from your brainstorming sheet, you need BOTH: a Q sentence NO QUOTE BOMBS!!! an E sentence Explain how your quote connects to your thesis (last sentence of intro) Your final product will be THREE double PQEs
Body Paragraphs: Concluding Sentences What is the purpose of a concluding sentence? Draws a conclusion based on the information set forth in the paragraph Offer a final observation about the controlling idea
My Concluding Sentences 1. Both the walls containing the streets and the river and the restraints on the mind are man-made. 3. Man, in his drive toward progress and industrialization, has destroyed the innocence of the children and stained the purity of God.
Body Paragraphs: Concluding Sentences
Body Paragraphs: Concluding Sentences
What goes in an Introduction? TAG author and title mandatory Premise Define and explain the Romantic theme that goes with your poem Information found in notes and taken from discussion Thesis Statement How is the poem an example of the Romantic theme? Sample Introduction:
What goes in a Conclusion? Your conclusion should mirror your introduction, but should not merely restate/rephrase it. TAG author and title mandatory Credit to the author Restated thesis Evaluation of purpose Why should the reader care about the points you made in your essay? Concluding sentence Wrap er up! Most importantly, do NOT introduce new information in your conclusion! These do not have to be in this order, nor do they all need to be separate sentences.
Sample Conclusion No new pink ideas! (examples from the poem)
Sample Conclusion No new pink ideas! (examples from the poem)
Sample Conclusion The elements are in a different order in this example.
BAD Conclusion The basic points of René Girard s theory surrounding violence and the sacred are illustrated beautifully in Shakespeare s Othello. The ideas of the Sacrificial Crisis, Mimetic Desire, and the Sacrificial Victim are all prevalent within the plot. Upon first reading, the motivations of some the characters in Othello may seem allusive. Iago s objectives appear to be little more than random desires and the apparent inability of Othello to break the cycle of deceit and violence is exasperating. However, if the play is viewed through Girard s theory, the idiosyncrasies of the characters make more sense. Even though Girard s book, Violence and the Sacred, mainly pertains to the world of anthropology, Girard uses the stories of Greek Tragedy to illustrate many of his points. He criticizes the belief held by many scientists that literature is basically innocuous and ultimately meaningless (Girard 206). Indeed, he says, one cannot but wonder how attentive readers [...] have managed to overlook it (Girard 73).
Bad Conclusion FIXED! The pink ideas have been removed! (woot.)