Northern Virginia Community College Love Song by Dorothy Parker Analysis Essay Rubric for literature analysis essay.docx Poems you may use for you paper o

Northern Virginia Community College Love Song by Dorothy Parker Analysis Essay Rubric for literature analysis essay.docx

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ICounttheFeathers.docx

Argument in literature assignment

For this paper you will write a 2-3 page analysis of a piece of literature. You may choose one of the poems on Canvas under this assignment or you may choose your own poem, song, or rap provided that you have not written on it before. If you choose your own work you must also include a copy with your paper. Another option is to compare two pieces of literature with similar or opposite meanings. Keep in mind that this class deals with argument (meaning) and not just style. Any work you choose must have enough substance to allow for a meaningful analysis in your paper. Show me your choice if you are unsure.

Think about what the author is trying to say—what is the argument or point, and how is the author making it? Use textual evidence to back up your interpretation. Among the things you may wish to discuss are the author’s use of logos, ethos, or pathos; use of imagery or metaphor; any analogies; symbolism used to make the argument; or social context. Your main focus should be your discussion of the work’s meaning, how the author conveys it, and what in the text supports that argument or meaning. Resist the urge to google what the meaning is—I want YOUR analysis and interpretation, which is every bit as valid as anything you find online. Plagiarizing words or ideas is unacceptable.

Format: The essay should be double-spaced, typed in 12-pt. type, and follow MLA style. Give your essay an interesting and descriptive title. The essay itself should be 2-3 pages long (at least 2 full pages). Include the original work and it’s source on a separate page and attach it to the end of your paper. You do not have to include a Works Cited page as you will not be using outside sources. Remember that poem titles and song titles all go in quotation marks in MLA style. In-text citations for poetry generally go by line number, however, if your source does not have line numbers, I will excuse you from this requirement as long as I can easily find the quoted material without them. Rubric for literature analysis essay
(100 points)
Presentation, design, grammar
Presents literature analysis to the class (10 points) ________
Heading is in MLA style (including page number) (5 points) _______
Paper has an intriguing or descriptive title (5 points) _____
Follows directions for submitting the assignment including to Canvas (5 points) ____
Includes a copy of the work being discussed (5 points)_________
Names the source where you found the work (book, website) (5 points)______
Writing is clear with correct grammar, usage, and punctuation (15 points) _____
Total____________
Organization and coherence
Author and work being discussed are named early in the essay (5 points)________
Paper is well-organized and flows logically (10 points)________
Paper ends with a strong conclusion (5 points)_________
Total_____________
Argument analysis
Identifies the work’s central argument (meaning) (15 points)_________
Uses textual evidence to support your analysis (15 points) __________
Some aspects that may be discussed:
techniques used to make the argument (ethos, pathos, logos? humor? other?)
symbolism/imagery
social context
tone
narrator/persona
wordplay
Total_____________
Was the chosen work substantive enough to support analysis?__________
Was the paper submitted on time? ________
Did the paper meet length requirement? __________
Total points_________
Grade as a percentage ___________
I Count the Feathers
by Sara Tanglinger
I count the feathers and wonder
is all that has been loved, still loved alone?
We dream by day, but you promised night
offered cognizance, and I wait for teeth
shaped like nightmares. The incubi of terror
linger. They invite agony into the brain,
a feeling you knew all too well.
I count the feathers and listen
to the gargle, choke, breathe,
repeat of madness. Psychosis wears
a face entombed in walls, but its soul
is trapped under ticking floorboards
Sanity may retreat from the exposure
of light, but a heart touched by insanity
is a heart set free in darkness.
I count the feathers and ask
where the rest of the nevers vanished to?
More are found inside the cemetery
where paw prints of a black cat stain
slabs of stone. Romanticism remains,
but is sliced from the reaper’s pendulum.
The fates of a kingdom by the sea pain
broken seraphs, and never found
here crashes in waves like the last spark
of wickedness reflected in the ink of your eyes.
The rest of us are lost in screams
behind red masques. We are left in October, counting
along to the decayed canto. The storm howls
upon the rain, and I listen, I hear you madly
muttering verses from your grave and I stand
beneath the sparking thunder, watching
the way hearts turnt o ravens and bust
into little black slices, and I count the feathers
Tantlinger, Sara. Love for Slaughter. “I Count the Feathers.” Strangehouse Books, an imprint of Rooster
Republic Press LLC. 2017.
Love Song
by Dorothy Parker
My own dear love, he is strong and bold
And he cares not what comes after.
His words ring sweet as a chime of gold,
And his eyes are lit with laughter.
He is jubilant as a flag unfurled—
Oh, a girl, she’d not forget him.
My own dear love, he is all my world—
ANd I wish I’d never met him.
My love, he’s mad, and my love, he’s fleet,
And a wild young wood-thing bore him!
The ways are fair to his roaming feet,
And the skies are sunlit for him.
As sharply sweet to my heart he seems
As the fragrance of acacia.
My own dear love, he is all my dreams—
And I wish he were in Asia.
My love runs by like a day in June,
And he makes no friends of sorrows.
He’ll tread his galloping rigadoon
In the pathway of the morrows.
He’ll live his days where the sunbeams start,
Nor could storm or wind uproot him.
My own dear love, he is all my heart—
And I wish someone would shoot him.
Parker, Dorothy. Not So Deep as a Well. “Love Song.” The Viking Press. 1937.

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