A Prayer for Year's End

Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings, with your most gracious favor, and further us with your continual help, that in all our works, begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy name; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

If you've not yet recited the lines you memorized a few miles above Tintern Abbey (ha), try to catch me before the roast on Friday. If that doesn't work, use whatever means possible to avoid a zero--even employing extreme measures, if necessary: since Katelyn W. knew she'd be recuperating and unable to participate on Wednesday, she recorded herself w/ her eyes shut, reciting her lines before going under the oral surgeon's knife.

Also, I MUST have all take-home finals in my possession by Friday night!

BRING YOUR BOOKS BACK, PLEASE, EVERYONE!! Otherwise, you or your parents will be stuck holding a huge bill after graduation.

SCHEDULE CHANGE: please read

ON SECOND THOUGHT...

let's make the film on Wednesday at 7:00. As it turns out, the Alum Soccer Team will be visiting WCA on Tuesday evening to subject themselves to annihilation by our varsity team.

Please spread the word of the schedule change.

Tuesday Evening and Last Year's Class

This Tuesday, May 12, you're invited to our house at 7:00 to watch a film--perhaps the recently remastered movie version of F. O'Connor's Wise Blood. Please bring the following items in hand or in your head, depending:

--Memorized excerpt from "Lines...Tintern Abbey"

--Completed, legible, take-home final exam

--How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Jack & Patrick, I think yours are still out!)

--$10-$12 for Cracking the A.P. Exam (Patrick OR Jack--I can't remember...)

We'll provide drinks, popcorn, and maybe Owen's amazing oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

Just for laughs, here's a link to a similar event w/ some of last year's class members:

Take-Home Final Exam

The take-home final exam for this course has three options. Choose one below.

Option 1. This take-home final exam essay is comprehensive over the last three periods of English literature -- the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. Here is the topic. Choose one poem from these four poets of the Modern period -- T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Philip Larkin. In a short essay discuss how the poem represents the continuation of a process or a trend that began with the Romantics and continued through the Victorians into the Modern period. In your essay, you may refer to one -- but only one -- additional work of literature, poetry or prose, from the Romantics and Victorians.

Option 2. This take-home final exam essay is comprehensive over all seven periods of English literature -- the Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Renaissance, 18th-Century, Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. Here is the topic. Choose a poem from two different periods of English literature that you feel merit comparison. In a short essay discuss how the ideas, images, or perspectives in these two poems are similar, dissimilar, or represent some noteworthy pattern of development over time.

Option 3. This take-home final exam essay asks you to write about three poems from the beginning, the middle, and the end of English literary history. We began this course of English literature with "Caedmon's Hymn," the first recorded poem in the English language. Using "Caedmon's Hymn" as a starting-point, discuss any notable developments & changes you see in English literature by comparing it with one poem from the Medieval, Renaissance, 18th-century, Romantic, or Victorian periods and one poem from the Modern period.

You may hand-write your essay on lined paper and bring it with you to the Evanses' house next Tuesday evening, or you may e-mail as an attachment or in the body of the e-mail message to:

jdmevans@uga.edu

by next Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. The essay should be between 250 and 500 words.