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Develop an interpretative claim in response to the prompt. Your claim should be insightful and debatable.
In order to answer the so what question?, demonstrate why your topic and claim is relevant to
the study of American literature published post-World War II to the present.
Alternatively, generate an original topic and research question pertaining to two or more short
stories, poems, or plays in the course reader. Your research question should consider the
potential influence of factors (such as time period, cultural heritage, region, and historical
events) on the author’s development of form, theme, style, and setting. Discuss your topic and
research question with me before beginning your essay.
Integrate and analyze supporting evidence from primary sources (the plays, short stories, or
poems) as well as secondary scholarly sources. Analyze quotations from the primary sources.
Integrate summaries, paraphrases, and quotations from a minimum of five scholarly journal
articles and/or book chapters. Locate your scholarly sources using library databases such as
MLA International Bibliography, ProQuest, and LION: Literature Online.
What do contemporary poets have to say about some of the traditional themes of poetry:
love, death, loss, or the passing of time? Choose and discuss two or three poems from
one of the following groups:
o Love: Lowell, “Skunk Hour”; Creeley, “For Love”; Rich, “A Valediction
o Forbidding Mourning”; Clifton, “homage to my hips”; Snyder, “Be neath My Hand
and Eye the Distant Hills, Your Body”; Wilbur,“ Love Calls Us to the Things of
This World”; Komunyakaa, “Song for My Father.”
o Death: Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”; Berryman, No. 384;
O’Hara, “The Day Lady Died”; Merwin, “For the Anniversary of My Death”;
Clifton, “The Lost Baby Poem”; Wilbur, “The Death of a Toad”; Sexton, “The
Truth the Dead Know” or “Sylvia’s Death”; Haas, “Faint Music.”
o Loss: Roethke, “The Lost Son”; Bishop, “One Art”; Jarrell, “Thinking of the Lost
World”; Merwin, “Losing a Language”; Levine, “Animals Are Passing from Our
Lives”; Haas, “Meditation at Lagunitas”; and Song, “Lost Sister.”
o The passing of time: Bishop, “In the Waiting Room”; Hayden, “Middle Passage”;
Lowell, “Memories of West Street and Lepke”; Wilbur, “The Beautiful Changes”;
Graham, “The Dream of the Unified Field”; Collins, “Forgetfulness.”
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