- You are required to cite at least four (4) of Frost's poems as evidence
- Your topic is to address one of the main theme's of Frost's work…but the essay structure won't be given until the exam
- discuss how he uses a literary element such as personification, or similar (you describe/define) imagery, or his use of forms, or similar speaker personas, etc.
- may involve comparing and/or contrasting of how Frost uses techniques
- "Open book" on Robert Frost's poems (annotate your poems in the Frost packet)
- One page of typed notes, to be handed in with exam
- Do NOT pre-write essay paragraphs, or else you will receive an automatic 0 on the exam.
- Do outline thematic ideas
- Do write down key lines, images, with line numbers
- Do categorize poems based on thematic statement or some motifs
Reviewing How to Write Thesis and Subtopics for Such an Essay as our Author Study
Thesis Statements:
Thesis Statements:
- Include your author subject(s) in the statement
- Include the topic you are writing on (the specific theme, for example)
- Include your view/argument about the two...
Examples (neither of these completely answers our actual prompt, but does demonstrate the part that includes outlining a common thematic statement in many of his poems):
- In the poems X, Y, and Z, Frost's speakers reflect upon their own smallness as part of the larger natural world.
- Frost consistently explores how man negatively separates himself from his fellow man, leaving him lost in the natural world.
Topic Sentences:
- Further the thesis by specifically addressing some point that you find "comes out of" the thesis.
- For instance, if your thesis says something about a specific theme, then your topic sentences should go into more specific ideas about how the works demonstrate or emphasize that theme.
- Specify the subjects that you are exploring in the body paragraph (use parallel structures!)
- When comparing 2 or more texts, specifically name those texts analyzed in this specific paragraph.
- Again, make it your priority to start each body paragraph with a point that expands on the thesis
Examples (make sure at least one of your own topic sentences for the final pursues an idea not evident within these models):
- X and Z both explore man's smallness through personification of inanimate objects.
- In all three poems, man's loneliness is represented by speakers whose diction is very rural.