What limits to understanding the past does trethewey discuss

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Homework: English

Goals

1. Demonstrate analytical skills
2. Construct an appropriately sophisticated thesis-driven essay
3. Understand how to utilize pre-writing and revising techniques

Instructions

Compose an argumentative essay of at least 1,000 words in which you analyze one or more of the poems we've read. Your thesis should require an argument. In other words, it shouldn't be obviously true at first glance.

Your goal for this homework is to offer a strong critical analysis of a literary text, which means that you should:

1. Make interpretive claims about the poem(s), rather than simply summarizing

2. Use specific pieces of evidence (quotations, summaries) to support more general claims, which ultimately support or illuminate your thesis (main argument)

3. Structure your argument (paragraphs within the essay, sentences within paragraphs) in a way that communicates your argument clearly, showing your reader how you analyze specific pieces of evidence to reach your conclusions.

Your essay should directly respond to one of the following prompts. Note that you don't necessarily need to answer the "questions to consider" for each prompt. Those questions are designed to help get you thinking.

Prompt I:

What point(s) about history are made by one or more of the poems we've read by Natasha Trethewey?

Questions to consider (but not necessarily answer in your essay):

1. How does Trethewey depict the preservation of history in her poetry?
2. What limits to understanding the past does Trethewey discuss?
3. What role does Trethewey take on in relation to her family history and the history of the South?

Prompt II:

What does Gloria Anzaldúa's poetry suggest in terms of resisting the "cultural tyranny" she writes about in Borderlands / La Frontera? How does her poetry suggest cultural tyranny be fought, if it can?

Note: If you choose this prompt, remember to focus your analysis on Anzaldúa's poems--not just her prose.

Questions to consider (but not necessarily answer in your essay):

1. What does Anzaldúa say about cultural tyranny? How does she depict it in her poetry?
2. What is the attitude toward cultural tyranny expressed by the speaker of the poems?
3. How does the language of the poems itself reflect the influence of various cultures?

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