Writing Challenge 7 – Poetry by William Blake
As you know from class, each week the English Composition classes will be issued several writing challenges geared toward practicing your writing skills.
Sometimes these challenges will contain specific instructions for writing one of the three types of essays we will be covering in class, and sometimes they will be generic assignments that can be responded to as you see fit.
For this writing challenge, I want to see what you can do with prompts similar to those found on the English Composition exam. This challenge will involve a Literary Analysis, as discussed during Week 5 of English Composition. You may want to review the Week 5 Activities posted in the English Composition section of the site.
Instructions:
- Register an user account on the web site so that you can submit your response.
- Read the questions carefully.
- Pause and think about how you wish to respond to the question.
- Open up your favorite word processing program (Word, Notepad, etc.)
- Write your essay! I want to see how you would write if you had to take the test right now.
- Post your essay as a response to this page. Once you log in, there should be a text box at the bottom of the page under the words “Leave A Reply”. Copy and paste your essay into this section, then click “Submit Comment”. You can choose to leave your name off of this, put a nick name, etc. Be sure to tell me which writing prompt you are responding to (A, B, or C).
- Watch for a reply! I will try to review and post comments on these essays as quickly as possible. If the essay needs extensive help, I will print the essay, make specific notes on it, and pass it back the next class meeting.
Your Seventh Writing Prompt:
For this challenge you will need to do some reading first! This challenge will be a set of the three most common writing prompts surrounding the story. I encourage you to write ALL THREE Of these essays and submit them for feedback. Because these are the most common prompts reported by students, I will give them the highest priority for critiquing. Practice makes perfect!
The Poet: William Blake
Option A: Discuss in detail the major themes we see in Blake’s pairs of poems. (HINT: The Tyger and The Lamb contrasting good and evil, Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow contrasting happiness and disappointment over a child being born.)
Option B: Compare and contrast the themes between either Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow or The Tyger and The Lamb.
Option C: Discuss the literary style of William Blake that we can see in these pieces. (HINT: Use of language, metaphors, symbolism.)
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