Write an argumentative essay in which you present your interpretation of some aspect of the work(s) you have chosen and try to convince the reader that your interpretation is correct, using mainly the text of the work(s) as evidence.
Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado”; Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”; Jackson, “The Lottery”; Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
Poetry
Poe, “Annabel Lee”; Browne, “Black Girl Magic”; Keats, “When I have fears that I may cease to be”; Housman, “To an Athlete Dying Young”; Heaney, “Mid-Term Break”; Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”; Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death”; Donne, “Death, be not proud”; Hopkins, “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child” (supplemental)
Essay should be broad enough to be able to expand on later on in a research paper
