investigating the meaning of a sustained literary work of poetry or prose (Allen Ginsberg’s poetry book “Howl” and Coates’ “Between the World and Me”)

8-10 page paper investigating the meaning of a sustained literary work of poetry or prose (Allen Ginsberg’s poetry book “Howl” )
You will be interpreting the work for meaning on topic and theme and integrate outside secondary sources of literary criticism (that is authority interpretation of the specific work or body of work the author has published)
1 work of primary source (the work itself)
6-8 additional sources commenting on the work (secondary sources)

Research Paper – interpretative language – seeks to understand the piece (8-10 pages)

Works cited page should have 8 sources

Focus on using a literary lense —

Formalism? Literary devices (more powerful with the poetry as an example)

Feminist theory which has expanded out to race, queer theory, disability, etc.Interpretative thesis statement that probes both topic and theme…

5 Parts

Introduction

3 supporting points

Conclusion

Topic sentence introducing the point

Textual evidence (direct quote in MLA style)

Analysis of the quote

Integrate literary criticism (which is authority interpretation from the outside *most cases from the library*that might change with Coats’ because it was published in 2015)