Describe a few characteristics of Enlightenment literature presented in our course. Illustrate those characteristics with specific detail from either Voltaire’s Candideor Gray’s “Elegy.”
Describe a few characteristics of 19th-century literature presented in our course. Illustrate those characteristics with specific detail from either Coreidge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, or Whitman’s poetry.
Describe a few characteristics of Modern literature presented in our course. Illustrate those characteristics with specific detail from either Crane’s “The Bride Comes to yellow Sky,” Yeats’ “Second Coming,” Frost’s “Death of a Hired Man,” or Green’s “The Destructors.”
Compare two of the assigned works of literature from the entire course that you believe make contrary claims about human potential in our fallen world. In what details are their differences most apparent?