The essay should be 1500 words in length.
Essays must engage with and analyse the primary text using specific literary terms – this analysis needs to be original and not rely on secondary criticism. Secondary criticism (from appropriate sources) can be used if properly referenced but it should be noted critical opinions are opinions not facts and should be treated analytically with reference to the primary text. All facts should be specific and referenced. All arguments should be supported by examples from the primary text(s), and referenced. Be sure to give full attention to matters of presentation, including argument structure, fluidity of writing, and such technical details as spelling, grammar, punctuation and consistent formatting. Every essay should make its purpose and approach evident in a clearly-presented thesis statement early in the paper and pursue this thesis consistently and clearly throughout.
- How are ideas about desire explored in the poems studied? Refer to AT LEAST TWO of the sonnets studied.
SONNETS TO RELATE TO:
- Sonnet 116 – Let me not to the marriage of true minds William Shakespeare
- Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person’d God by John Donne
- The Windhover by Gerard Manely Hopkins
