Close Reading: Close read the last seven paragraphs of the novel beginning "Gatsby's house was still empty when I left--." Pay particular attention to rhetorical, literary, and stylistic devices Fitzgerald employs to achieve his purpose in the novel as a whole.
First you must decide, what is Fitzgerald's purpose?
The following due date will depend on your group's decision regarding your longing essay:
One essay written by entire group: Due: 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 20.
Four essays written individually : Due: 8:15 a.m. Thursday, January 22.
Sample thesis statements for longing essay:
Longing is necessary to the human condition as can be seen in the literary works of Keats, Fitzgerald, and C.S. Lewis.
Longing gives hope, purpose, and joy to the human condition as can be seen through the literary works of Keats, Fitzgerald, and C.S. Lewis.
While Keats and Fitzgerald recognize man's need to long for something beyond the realities of life, C. S. Lewis offers the answer to hyumanity's need for longing.
For your reading pleasure:
Longing
By Dennis Brutus
Can the heart compute desire’s trajectory
Or logic obtuse with semantic ambiguities
This simple ache’s expletive detonation?
Or logic obtuse with semantic ambiguities
This simple ache’s expletive detonation?
This is the wordless ultimate ballistic
Impacting past Science’s reason, past logic
To blast the heart’s defensive mechanism.
Impacting past Science’s reason, past logic
To blast the heart’s defensive mechanism.
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| We will discuss this piece. Johannek |
O my heart, my lost hope love, my dear
Absence and hunger mushroom my hemispheres;
No therapy, analyses deter my person’s fission:
Absence and hunger mushroom my hemispheres;
No therapy, analyses deter my person’s fission:
My heart know now such devastation;
Yearning, unworded, explodes articulation:
Sound-swift, in silence, fall the rains of poison.
Yearning, unworded, explodes articulation:
Sound-swift, in silence, fall the rains of poison.
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