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General Introduction: What is Literature?

• What is Literature?

A Brief introduction: How to write a literary essay

• A Brief Guide to Writing the English Paper

James Baldwin

• James Baldwin Bio
• What is Plot?
• Sonny's Blues
• Plot Summary of "Sonny's Blues" from Spark Note
• Historical Context from Enote
• Key Passages I
• Key Passage II
• Key Passage III
• Key Passage IV
• Key Passage V
• Key Passage VI
• Key Passage VII

Edgar Allan Poe

• Edgar Allan Poe
• Point of View and Unreliable Narrator
• Key Passages from "The Cask of Amontillado"

William Faulkner

• William Faulkner Biography
• What is Character?
• Key passages in A Rose for Emily

Poetry Introduction & Robert Browning

• Defining Poetry, Poetic Subgenres and Kinds
• Responding to Poetry
• Speaker
• What is Meter?
• Robert Browning Biography
• Dramatic Monologue
• My Last Duchess

Dorothy Parker

• Dorothy Parker Bio
• Lyric and its Speaker
• A Certain Lady
• A Translation of
• Possible Questions

Matthew Arnold

• Situation and Setting
• Matthew Arnold
• "Dover Beach"

Andrew Marvell

• Andrew Marvell Biography
• The Carpe Diem Poem
• To His Coy Mistress
• Metaphysical Poets

W. D. Snodgrass

• What is Tone?
• W.D. Snodgrass Biography
• Leaving the Motel

W. H. Auden

• What is Elegy?
• Elegy란 무엇인가(내 강연문 발췌)
• W.H. Auden Biography
• Funeral Blues

Theodore Roethke

• Word Order and Placement in "My Papa's Waltz"
• Theodore Roethke Biography
• My Papa's Waltz
• Diction: Denotation and Connotation

William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare Biography
• That time of year thou mayst in me behold
• Metaphor
• Metaphor in "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"

Emily Dickinson

• Personification
• Emily Dickinson Biography
• Because I could not stop for Death --

John Keats

• Symbol
• John Keats
• Ode to a Nightingale

Sophocles

• What is Drama?
• Greek Tragedy and Aristotle's Poetics
• Sophocles Biography
• Summary of Antigone
• Themes in Antigone
• Key Passages from Antigone