ENGL Meridian Community A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Poem Questions

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· Word minimum: 500 words, excluding the Works Cited page

· MLA format

· Written in third person. Written in present/present perfect verb tense.

•At least two quotations from the work that are being discusse

· Only one source required: the primary source.

Prompts:

1). “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”: Beginning with line 25, the poem develops an extended metaphor that compares the speaker and his loved one to “twin compasses” (line 26), attached yet separate. Why is the compass an especially appropriate metaphor? (Refer to the PowerPoint discussing this poem for an image of the “twin compasses.”)

2). “The Story of an Hour”: What is the nature of the conflict in this story? Who, or what, should the reader see as Mrs. Mallard’s antagonist?

3). “The Gift of the Magi”: What is important about the title? Does it suggest that the story has a religious lesson, or just that Christmas will figure into the plot somehow?

4). “Sonnet 116” (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”): How does the speaker in this poem emphasis the mental/spiritual and downplay the physical in true love?

5). “Sonnet 130” (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”): How is the imagery in this poem like and unlike that of traditional love poems?