Analysis paper
Choose one of the following stories, novels, plays, or poems for your research paper. You may wish to read the
introduction to the author and then to read the first few paragraphs of the story, novel, or play to help you make
your choice. I suggest that you read your primary source (the story, novel, or play) before looking for
commentaries (secondary sources), since you'll want to experience it as literature with all its interesting details
and surprises first. Once you have made your choice, read carefully and take notes, jotting down any questions
that occur to you as you read. These questions will be part of your research paper.
From the Romanticism Era
1. William Blake, Songs of Innocence (If you choose Blake, you will have to read at least 5 poems in Songs
of Innocence)
2. William Blake, Songs of Experience (If you choose Blake, you will have to read at least 5 poems in Songs
of Experience)
3. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
4. William Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
6. George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”