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Formal paper draft

Formal paper draft

Q Description: Formal Paper 1 asks you to write a thesis-driven analysis and interpretation of one of the poems we’ve studied in class so far. In your analysis, you need to address both the content and the form of the poem, and you need to use literary terms you’ve learned in this course to address how the specific parts of the poem work together to contribute to the whole. Additionally, you should draw on at least one outside source to help you frame your discussion and support your claims. This source can be one of the critical lenses I’ve suggested in the PowerPoint on Mohja Kahf’s poem. Note that you do not have to analyze Kahf’s poem to use those lenses. For example, you can use Adrienne Rich’s idea of “re-vision” to analyze either Kahf’s re-vision of the figure of the “odalisque” or Bennett’s re-writing of fairytale “Snow White.” Length: • Between 800-1000 words (3-4 double-spaced pages)

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