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.