Write an essay of 3 pages ( 500 to 600 academic word count) on one of the following topics:
1.Compare and contrast The Passionate Shepherd to His Love with The Nymph to the Shepherd in terms of themes, imagery and diction. (I expect a paragraph on each of these poetic elements)
2. The definition of the sublime experience is a combination of joy and fear. The Romantics including Keats saw the sublime as the ultimate living experience. As a result a poem like “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” represents love as a sublime experience.
Explain this theme in his poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.” Also explain the use of imagery and diction in this poem and its support of the sublime experience. (Write one paragraph on each of these elements).
3. Choose any one of the Shakespearean sonnets that we have covered in class and explain its themes, imagery and diction.
