Literature Foundation 2010
Week 4
For next week:
1. Could all three groups please write a first paragraph of an answer to the following examination question:
According to Pope, satire 'heals with Morals, what it hurts with wit'. How far do you think this statement true of To Arbuthnot and/or Verses on the Death of Dr Swift?
Remember:
1. Identify the key words.
2. In the first half of the first paragraph, give your interpretation of the meaning of the key words.
3. In the second half of the first paragraph, say how you are going to answer the question.
2. Please read Verses on the Death of Dr Swift. then prepare to comment in detail on the following passages: verse form, use of imagery, relation of verse form to content, and, especially, relation of content to the rest of the poem and the overall project of the poem. Line by line analysis, please...
group 1: lines 31-52
group 2: lines 219-242
group 3: lines 339-370
