Write an essay of at least 300 words on one of the following topics.
These topics do not require research, and you should try to avoid using anything other
than your own reading of the texts, and course lecture and tutorial discussions in writing
on these topics. However, if you do use research, it must be adequate in range and
quality, and it must be cited.
Any readings assigned for this course and used in this essay should be cited. Essays for English courses should follow the MLA citation protocols. Not to cite your sources is plagiarism, a breach of academic honesty, and such a breach is taken very seriously by
1. According to Wordsworth in his “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”, what is the main
positive effect that the use of meter has on poetry?
2. Choose one poem assigned September 8-September 26 and discuss one or two effects
of its prosodic form.
3. Focus on one emotion or aesthetic response that you experienced while reading one
poem assigned September 8-September 26, and discuss one or two ways in which the
poem’s prosodic form helped to cause that response.
4. In “Rape”, what causes the “light of the precinct” to be “sickening” ;
OR in Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”, what causes “custom to lie upon with a weight/ Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life”?
