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This paper is about literature. You're able to choose from the topics given below. I can provide further documents if accepted. Approx. Length: 5 pages Choose one of the topics below. You may draw ideas from introductory material, footnotes, or questions in the Norton Introduction to Literature as long as you cite them properly. Do not use any other secondary sources for your essay. Organize your essay around your ideas; revise your essay to make sure you have developed all of your ideas and written clear transitions between the parts of your essay; edit your essay carefully for grammar and diction. 1. Write an essay on Li-Young Lee’s poem “Persimmons” (Norton 448-450) explaining how the poem’s internal structure and its attention to small differences help it to move between two cultures, US and Chinese, and whether and why it favors one culture over the other. Consider how internal rhyme, assonance, and alliteration help the poem to work with small differences. In the early stages of your thinking, you might note that the difference between the words “precision” and “persimmons” highlights the small shifts in perception that poets like Julia Alvarez find to be important in poetry. You also might pay attention to the tone in which acts of eating and holding persimmons are described in detail. Does such attention seem more important to one culture than the other? Why is it important? 2. Discuss the ways that the stage directions in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles are important for expressing its theme. Organize your essay around the different ways the stage directions achieve this end. In the course of your discussion, you may consider how the stage directions reveal characters, increase or decrease conflict in the plot, and emphasize particular kinds of language and/or symbols in the play. 3. Explain how you would design the stage set, props, costumes, makeup, and lighting for a production of Sophocles’ Antigone and why you choose to design them as you do. First, decide what themes you want to emphasize. The themes should guide your project. Then, decide whether you plan to use a modern set and modern costumes or a set and costumes more in keeping with the classical theater of Sophocles’ time. The purpose of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of the characters, conflicts, themes, and social purposes of the play and to highlight the relationship you want to establish between actors and the audience. To write a good essay on this topic you must demonstrate that you understand ideas from class discussion and can press beyond them. 4. Discuss the interplay of form and meaning in two villanelles: Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (Norton 559), and Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” (side two of this sheet). Treat one poem first and then the other. In each case, explain how the poet’s work with the fixed form helps to create the tone and convey the meaning of the poem. Include in your discussion of Thomas’s poem, a treatment of what is unique in each tercet (3-line stanza) and its tension with, or relation to, the poem’s structured repetition. Include in your treatment of Bishop’s poem, discussion of how the items lost change from the first tercet to the last and their interaction with the poem’s repetitions. The last section of your essay before your conclusion should comment on what the two villanelles have in common and how they differ.