- A.S. Byatt: “The Thing in the Forest”
- Flannery O’Connor: “Everything that Rises Must Converge”
- “Passages from Flannery O’Connor’s Essays and Letters”
- James Richardson: “Late Aubade”
- Emily Dickinson: “Because I could not stop for death”
- Yusef Komunyakaa: “Facing It”
- discuss the role of the narrator in each of the poems we read this week. Consider their relationship with death (and life) and how they use specific language to signal this connection. Give specific examples from each of the three poems.
- Most of the readings for “life and death” deal primarily with death. Why do you think this is? Can we understand life without the inevitability of death? How do we see life as a theme in these works specifically (include examples from at least three pieces)?
- What do you make of the end of “The Thing in the Forest?” Have Penny and Primrose resolved any of their questions related to the “thing” in the forest? How has each woman individually dealt with her memory of the event?
Cite the selected passage at the very beginning of your paper and use proper bibliographic citation (MLA format preferred) throughout. You may want (but don’t necessarily need) to offer, immediately a
Cite the selected passage at the very beginning of your paper and use proper bibliographic citation (MLA format preferred) throughout. You may want (but don’t necessarily need) to offer, immediately after your cited text, a brief contextualizing synopsis of the chapter or episode in which your selection appears. Try to