Group 2 is Astonishing!
Please post your criteria, your brilliant thesis, and your justification here!
posted by Ms. Clapp @ 2:03 PM
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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Okely, dokely. Michelle and I are posting on behalf of the following APES: Jill-o, Dan, and Celia.
CRITERIA
a. Identifies the two contrasting views of Helen
b. Identifies the particular literary elements used by Poe and H.D.
c. Alludes to the significance of the contrasting views and method of presentation
THESIS
While both Edgar Allen Poe's To Helen and H.D.'s Helen take into consideration the eponymous queen's beauty, Poe uses first-person point of view and elevated diction to portray a speaker who directly addresses Helen in his extolment of her. Presenting the speaker thus, reinforces the classic, ancient imagery used to create his sense of exaltation. Conversely, H.D. utilizes a bitter tone, terse, standard diction, and funereal imagery to convey the Greeks' resentment and repugnance over the destruction Helen caused--conveying a sterile, sickly beauty whose reviled callous and unfeeling nature will only be abated when she dies. That the two poets employ similar literary elements as speaker, diction, and imagery but to present two contrasting views demonstrates the
breadth of function such devices serve.
JUSTIFICATION
We feel that the thesis meets all three stated criteria and fully addresses the question by i) identifying the separate views of Helen(Poe-exaltation, H.D.-resentfulness and repugnance) of the two speakers ii) the poets' means of creating and presenting said views (speaker, diction, imagery) and iii) the significance. Our thesis clearly demonstrates the purpose of the essay in its last sentence. Obviously, all writers use literary techniques, but the contrast that these poems create accentuate the necessity of using them correctly. The poems convey entirely different sentiments, and our thesis allows the rest of the essay to expound on that idea without being redundant or with excess.
I think that this thesis dose fulfill all the requirements of a good thesis statement. It (a.) Identifies the two contrasting views of Helen ("While both Edgar Allen Poe's To Helen and H.D.'s Helen take into consideration the eponymous queen's beauty...") It then (b.) Identifies the particular literary elements used by Poe and H.D. (where "Poe uses first-person point of view and elevated diction to portray a speaker who directly addresses Helen" and how "H.D. utilizes a bitter tone, terse, standard diction, and funereal imagery to convey the Greeks' resentment and repugnance over the destruction Helen caused") Finally with (c.) how the thesis alludes to the significance of the contrasting views and method of presentation is quickly rapped up in a single sentence while being detailed enough while not putting in topics that would be repeated again in the body paragraphs.
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This paper is very specific and addresses the entire question fully. It not only answers the question with full understandment, but it goes into details and specifics about the "how".It goes into discussing the diction and all the literary elements and how it alludes to the significance of the contrast(which was part of the criteria) The entire paper flowed very nicely and it incorporated evidence from the poems very smoothly.However, I wasn't sure if I completely agreed with the "white ash in the the green world."I might just be because that's not what i got out of the poem.But overall i really like this paper and it nicely contrasts the two poems and I give it a double high five! Go Go Go Team 2!!!
I'm going to go with a score of 8 on this essay. It's very strong and well organized despite going against the suggested layout for this kind of essay. The use of evidence was clear and to the point and did its job of supporting the topic sentences. However, the essay is "not without flaws," as the scoring guide for this prompt states. I feel that the conclusion was a little weak, but other than that, this essay is quite fabulous. I know I wouldn't be able to do this in 40 minutes, so really good job group 2.
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