Romantic Poetry

Step 1: Choose Your Topic

Find and explain Romantic themes in:

“The Lamb” and “The Tyger”

“The Tyger”

“The Divine Image” and “The Human Abstract”

“The Divine Image”

“The Human Abstract”

“Ozymandias”

Topic Sentences

1. Come up with 3-4 topics for body paragraphs.

2. Using your ideas, write the topic sentences for your

body paragraphs. (These are the Ps of your PQE)

My topics were:

1. Man’s attempt to control nature

2. Negative effects on the citizens of London

3. Pollution caused by industrialization

My topic sentences were:

1. Immediately in the first stanza the speaker discusses man’s attempt to

control nature.

2. The constraints civilization has placed on the natural world have an

immediate, negative effect on the citizens of London.

3. The soot and other grime associated with the factories and other miracles

of the industrial world have taken their toll on the city as well.

Supporting your topics with textual evidence

For each topic:

Choose 2 or 3 pieces of evidence from the poem

(quote)

Write them under each topic

○ Include the line number

Topic:

1. Man’s attempt to control nature

1. Charter’d streets (1)

2. Charter’d Thames (2)

3. Mind-forged manacles (8)

2. Pollution caused by industrialization

1. Chimney-sweepers (9)

2. Blackening churches (10)

Supporting Sentences

Use the work you did yesterday to write the

supporting sentences for your body paragraphs.

For each idea from your brainstorming sheet, you

need BOTH:

○ a Q sentence

NO QUOTE BOMBS!!!

○ an E sentence

Explain how your quote connects to your thesis (last sentence

of intro)

Your final product will be THREE double PQEs

Body Paragraphs: Concluding Sentences

What is the purpose of a concluding

sentence?

Draws a conclusion based on the

information set forth in the paragraph

Offer a final observation about the

controlling idea

My Concluding Sentences

1. Both the walls containing the streets and

the river and the restraints on the mind

are man-made.

3. Man, in his drive toward progress and

industrialization, has destroyed the

innocence of the children and stained the

purity of God.

Body Paragraphs: Concluding Sentences

Body Paragraphs: Concluding Sentences

What goes in an Introduction?

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author and title mandatory

Premise

Define and explain the Romantic theme that goes with your poem

Information found in notes and taken from discussion

Thesis Statement

How is the poem an example of the Romantic theme?

Sample Introduction:

What goes in a Conclusion?

Your conclusion should mirror your introduction,

but should not merely restate/rephrase it.

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author and title mandatory

Credit to the author

Restated thesis

Evaluation of purpose

Why should the reader care about the points you made in your

essay?

Concluding sentence

Wrap ‘er up!

These do not have to be

in this order, nor do they

all need to be separate

sentences.

Most importantly, do NOT introduce new

information in your conclusion!

Sample Conclusion

No new pink ideas!

(examples from the poem)

Sample Conclusion

No new pink ideas!

(examples from the poem)

Sample Conclusion

The elements are in a different

order in this example.

BAD Conclusion

The basic points of René Girard’s theory surrounding

violence and the sacred are illustrated beautifully in

Shakespeare’s Othello. The ideas of the Sacrificial Crisis,

Mimetic Desire, and the Sacrificial Victim are all prevalent

within the plot. Upon first reading, the motivations of some

the characters in Othello may seem allusive. Iago’s

objectives appear to be little more than random desires and

the apparent inability of Othello to break the cycle of deceit

and violence is exasperating. However, if the play is viewed

through Girard’s theory, the idiosyncrasies of the characters

make more sense. Even though Girard’s book, Violence and

the Sacred, mainly pertains to the world of anthropology,

Girard uses the stories of Greek Tragedy to illustrate many of

his points. He criticizes the belief held by many scientists

that “‘literature’ is basically innocuous and ultimately

meaningless” (Girard 206). “Indeed,” he says, “one cannot

but wonder how attentive readers [. . .] have managed to

overlook it” (Girard 73).

The ideas of the Sacrificial Crisis,

Mimetic Desire, and the Sacrificial Victim are all prevalent

within the plot. Upon first reading, the motivations of some

the characters in Othello may seem allusive. Iago’s

objectives appear to be little more than random desires and

the apparent inability of Othello to break the cycle of deceit

and violence is exasperating. However, if the play is viewed

through Girard’s theory, the idiosyncrasies of the characters

make more sense. Even though Girard’s book, Violence and

the Sacred, mainly pertains to the world of anthropology,

Girard uses the stories of Greek Tragedy to illustrate many of

his points. He criticizes the belief held by many scientists

that “‘literature’ is basically innocuous and ultimately

meaningless” (Girard 206).

Iago’s

objectives appear to be little more than random desires and

the apparent inability of Othello to break the cycle of deceit

and violence is exasperating.

Even though Girard’s book, Violence and

the Sacred, mainly pertains to the world of anthropology,

Girard uses the stories of Greek Tragedy to illustrate many of

his points. He criticizes the belief held by many scientists

that “‘literature’ is basically innocuous and ultimately

meaningless” (Girard 206).

Bad Conclusion FIXED!

The pink ideas have been

removed! (woot.)