write four short essays
Instructions
Using the examination booklet, write four short essays in response to the following sets of paired quotations. Each essay should construct a concise comparative analysis of the pair presented for your consideration. Address similarities as well as differences in imaginative language, stylistic techniques, character development, and/or thematic significance. While you may concentrate on these passages themselves via close reading, you should also situate them in the broader context of the literary works from which they are taken. Try to draw revealing connections between the two excerpts. How does thinking about one passage help you to clarify the other? How do their shared or divergent emphases resound throughout our study of place-based American literature? How do they embody or resolve tensions between roots and routes? Aim to spend about half an hour analyzing each pair of quotations, so that you can complete all four essays in two hours.
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Essay Comparison
Essay One
The presentation of the poem takes the perspective of the narrator, explaining the significance of his environment to his welfare. On the other hand, while Annie Dillard also takes a personal approach in explaining the story, she focuses on the relevance of the environment to individual welfare as opposed to the physical space highlighted by Berry. According to Berry “the blue-flowered field, holding/in its center the sky-reflecting pond.” The lines help appropriately understand the relationship between environment and being, as two of the critical aspects that define an individual’s satisfaction. As Dillard puts it, “What is important is anyone’s coming awake and discovering a place, finding in full orbit a spinning globe one can lean over, catch, and jump on.” Ultimately, the story helps understand the poem better by presenting a contrasting perspective,
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