The Chimney Sweeper Assignment | Online Assignment

“The Chimney Sweeper” poems in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience can be seen as conversation poems. Keeping in mind the aspects included below, how do each of the poems meet the qualifications for a conversation poem? (use line numbers for your in-text citations)

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“The Chimney Sweeper” poems in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience can be seen as conversation poems. Keeping in mind the aspects included below, how do each of the poems meet the qualifications for a conversation poem? (use line numbers for your in-text citations)
Here’s a little more information about the characteristics of a “conversation poem”:
Speaker usually is in an outdoor setting
Reader “overhears” the conversation the speaker is having with a silent listener
Begins with a description of the landscape, the description triggers a memory
Speaker “achieves an insight, faces up to a tragic loss, comes to a moral decision or resolves an emotional problem”
Poem often “ends where it began, at the outer scene, but with an altered mood and deepened understanding which is the result of the intervening meditation”
(M.H. Abrams qtd. in Stillinger Romantic Complexity: Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge 53

How does John Keats’ “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” illustrate the theme of illusion/appearance versus reality? How does the concept of the “femme fatale” relate to the relationship between power and victimhood in the poem? (use stanza numbers for your in-text citations)
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Wilfred Owen and Claude McKay each use poetry to convey messages their contemporary audience would likely have found unsettling. Using the information we discussed in class, including literary terms we’ve learned throughout the semester, discuss how:
Owen uses “Dulce et Decorum Est” to convey the reality of WWI warfare
McKay uses “If We Must Die” to convey the reality of post WWI life for African-Americans
(Use line numbers for your in-text citations on both poems)
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