explain how the 2 texts treat their common topics and how and why they differ in their handling of the material

Compare 2 literary texts from Modules/Weeks 5, 6, or 7 that deal with the same topic or theme, but do so in different ways, drawing on outside research to frame your discussion of these differences. Possible topics might include freedom, alienation, race, identity, individualism, equality, power, death, love, gender, family, religion, work, money.

Your purpose in writing this paper is to explain how the 2 texts treat their common topics and how and why they differ in their handling of the material (i.e., how historical events and cultural changes affect the texts’ stances on/presentations of the issue at hand). All material not the student’s own must be cited properly with in-text citations and works cited entries (including the literary texts compared).

Literary texts from which to choose:

Robinson: poems (pages 957-967)
Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (in Bb)
Lowell: poems (pages 1055-1059)
Stevens: “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” (page 1072), “Anecdote of the Jar,” “The Snow Man” (pages 1079-1080), “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” (page 1083)
O’Neill: The Hairy Ape (pages 1118-1147)
Hughes: poems (pages 1192-1200)
Fitzgerald: “Babylon Revisited” (pages 1203-1216)
Brooks: poems (pages 1296–1299)
Vonnegut: “Harrison Bergeron” (in Bb)
Dylan: song lyrics (pages 1330-1338)
O’Connor: “Good Country People” (pages 1370-1383)

In writing your paper, you must use at least 3 outside sources (in addition to the literary works you are comparing). Build this bibliography using Liberty’s Library Research Guide for English focusing particularly on The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics, Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, JSTOR, and the MLA International Bibliography.
You might also find helpful the videos at American Passages (a companion website for our Norton anthology) in which the units are listed to the left. Select the unit you are interested in and find the video in the middle, bottom of the page.

Format your paper using MLA, APA, or Turabian format. Papers must include a title page, thesis statement, and outline which will then be followed by the body of the paper itself and a bibliography.