Assignment 2 Critical Reading Response: story Explication

Assignment 2 Critical Reading Response: story Explication

story name and writer ; Sister Carrie

my first assignment was same but it was poem this time I would like you to work on story. I copied and pasted some instruction and you will see that typed ” poem”. so just assume it story. I already typed story name and writer on top.

• The paper must be typed and double-spaced, conforming to proper manuscript format.
• Length: 2-3 pages.
• You may use outside sources only from academic databases from the Palm Beach State online library

https://www.palmbeachstate.edu/library/articles-and-databases.aspx ” I am copying and passing instructions by my professor.

An Explication is a detailed analysis of a work of literature, often proceeding word-by-word or line-by-line through the work. For this paper, you will be writing an explication of a poem. You may choose any of the poems we have read or will read for class.

In the Explication you will be presenting your “reading” of the poem you have chosen. Such a reading will require you to understand many aspects of the poem and to have a grasp of the meaning of individual parts of the poem in relation to the entire work. You are not, however, striving to be exhaustive in your “explanation” of the poem, but rather you should try to be selective in considering only those details that are significant to your own thematic understanding of the poem.

An explication demonstrates your ability to (1) follow the essential details of the poem, (2) understand the issues and the meaning the poem reveals, (3) explain some of the relationships of content and technique, and (4) note and discuss especially important or unique aspects of the poem.

• In your introduction, use your thesis or central idea to express a general view of the poem, which your essay will fill out with specific details.
• Next, explicate the poem in relation to your central idea. You choose your own order of discussion, depending on your topics. You must, however, keep stressing your central idea with each new topic. Thus, you may wish to follow your description by discussing the poem’s meaning, or even by presenting two or more possible interpretations. You might also wish to refer to significant techniques. In other words, discuss those aspects of the meaning and technique that bear on your thesis/analysis.
• In your conclusion, you should repeat your main idea to reinforce your essay’s thematic structure. Since you’ve been working on a general explication (not an exhaustive one), there will be parts of the poem that you will not have disucssed. You might then mention what could be gained from an exhautive examination of various parts of the poem (you should not by any means begin such a task yourself in your concluding paragraph). Finally, leave the reader with a lasting impression of your “reading” of the poem. This is your chance to turn poet for a moment; as with a poem, occasionally the final image of an essay can have the greatest impact on a reader.