Application for Advanced Placement English E7X –E8X



Application for Advanced Placement English E7X –E8X

Select one of the following essay topics.

A. In a well organized essay, compare/contrast the following poems. Pay attention to the following: structure, imagery, language, and theme.

Sonnet 43--- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I Love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of every day's

Most quiet need, by sun and

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right.

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee within the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seem to lose

With all my lost saints--I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, and tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

 

Home Thoughts by Carl Sandburg

 

The sea rocks have a green moss.

The pine rocks have red berries.

I have memories of you.

 

….

 

Speak to me of how you miss me.

Tell me the hours go long and slow.

 

Speak to me of the drag on your heart,

The iron drag of the long days.

 

I know hours empty as a beggar’s tin cup on a rainy day,

Empty as a soldier’s sleeve with an arm lost.

 

Speak to me . . .

B. Works of literature often depict acts of betrayal. Friends and even family may betray a protagonist; main characters may likewise be guilty of treachery or may betray their own values. Select a novel of play that includes such acts of betrayal. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the nature of the betrayal and show how it contributes to the meaning of the works as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.

C. In great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Choose a work of literary merit that confronts the reader or audience with a scene or scenes of violence. In a well-organized essay, explain how the scene or scenes contribute to the meaning of the complete work. Avoid plot summary.

D. An eating scene is common in drama and fiction. It may be a simple meal or a banquet, a holiday party, or an ordinary family dinner, but the work would not be quite the same without it.

Choose a play, epic poem, or novel which contains such a scene of eating, and write an essay in which you discuss what such a scene reveals, how the scene is related to the meaning of the work as a whole, and by what means the author makes the scene effective. Focus your essay on only one scene. Do not summarize the plot.

Your essay and application must be submitted to your English teacher by

Thursday, April 15, 2010.

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