For your initial discussion post, you should select one of the prompt questions below and write a strong response paragraph that uses the assigned readings for the week as the basis for your response. Your paragraph should establish a claim followed by quoted support from the literature. Follow MLA formatting guidelines for in-text citations when you quote. For the purpose of this course, “literature” is defined as poems, short stories, novel excerpts, non-fiction narratives, speeches, sermons, etc. While you can quote from the editorial sections (author biographies, historical context sections, summaries of artistic and geopolitical changes, etc.), you must focus your response paragraph on the assigned literature and quote from the assigned literature. You should spend time explaining how the quoted evidence you offer proves your claim to be true. Your response paragraph should be five to seven well developed sentences long.
Below is the question to be answered:
- How do these works evidence the impacts of the aftermath of World War I?
Below is the readings:
- From The Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1865 to Present, Shorter, 9th edition:
- American Literature 1914-1945: Two Wars As Historical Markers pp. 667-670
- Changing Times pp. 670-674
- Science and Technology pp. 674-675
- The 1930s pp. 675-677
- American Versions of Modernism pp. 677-681
- Modernism Abroad and on Native Grounds pp. 681-683
- Gertrude Stein pp. 729-731
- from The Making of Americans: Introduction pp. 731-734
- Robert Frost pp. 735-736
- “Mending Wall” pp. 737-738
- “The Road Not Taken” pp. 744
- Sherwood Anderson pp. 761-763
- from Winesburg, Ohio: “Hands” pp. 763-737
- Wallace Stevens pp. 775-777
- “Anecdote of the Jar” pp. 782
- “Of Modern Poetry” pp. 785-786
- William Carlos Williams pp. 786-788
- “Portrait of a Lady” pp. 789
- “The Red Wheelbarrow” pp. 793
- “This Is Just to Say” pp. 793-794
- Langston Hughes pp. 816
- from The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain pp. 816-818
- Marianne Moore pp. 822-824
- “Poetry” 824-825
