Please read the questions carefully. Regardless of which option you choose, your essay should be 500-1,000 words and five to ten paragraphs in length. The essay must have a TITLE and a THESIS STATEMENT. You must support your thesis statement with examples, facts, and/or other evidence in an essay that has a clear beginning, middle and end. You should use examples from the text you choose to write about, and possibly your personal experience and knowledge. You should use direct quotes, but you may also paraphrase and summarize. You may wish to use one or more prewriting techniques to generate ideas before you begin. Write an on Ray Bradbury’s novel in which you answer ONE of the following questions. Please use examples (preferably direct quotations) from the reading to support your thesis and main points: Write a in which you discuss the similarities between two of the poems listed below. How are the themes (“implicit or r
ecurrent ideas”) of these pieces similar? In addition to theme, you must discuss two or more of the following ELEMENTS in your essay: character, speaker / persona, setting, style, tone, symbol, and personification. Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” (Gardner pages 490-491). Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” (Gardner pages 493-494). William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” (Gardner page 500). Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (Gardner page 505). T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Gardner pages 516-520). Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning” (Gardner pages 528-529). Dylan Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night” (Gardner pages 540-541). John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (Gardner pages 431-432). Andrew Marvell, “To s Coy Mistress” (Gardner pages 439-440). Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory” (Gardner page 502).