Welcome to BOP or brings you’re own weekend. Let the stanza hunting begin. Please find a poem that inspires you (it can be about Los Angeles but doesn’t have to be) and answer the following questions for five points:
Exercise:
What background information should the reader be aware of in order to fully understand your poem?
What is the poem’s basic argument, and why do you find it so compelling?
Find one secondary source–a source outside the poem itself that analyzes, assesses or interprets the primary work. Secondary sources often offer a review, a critique, or observations about the piece. Secondary sources can include books, journal articles, speeches, reviews, research reports, and more. Use your source to support your reading of the poem.
Relate one quote (set-up with a signal phrase) and all of the MLA data for the source below. For example: a) James argues that Mark Twain “was the quintessential America writer.” b) MLA data
Basic online source model: Author. “Title.” Title of container (self contained if book), Other contributors (translators or editors), Version (edition), Number (vol. and/or no.), Publisher, Publication Date, Location (pages, paragraphs and/or URL, DOI or permalink). 2nd container’s title, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location, Date of Access (if applicable).
Here is some excellent information about databases from the ELAC Library. (Links to an external site.)
And here are the best databases for Literature sources:
Gale Literature
Find author biographies, book reviews, topic overviews, and literary criticism from scholarly journals.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text (EBSCO) (Links to an external site.)
MLA International Bibliography covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature.
JSTOR
Includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes over 50 titles in the mathematical and statistical sciences.
To receive your full credit, please respond to a classmate in a short paragraph.
