4 pages essay
discuss 3 of any of the following works and tie the 3 works with specific topic list on the following:
3 works to choose from:
- William Shakespeare (the rape of Lucrece; or Sonnets)
- Christopher Marlowe (Hero and Leander; or The passionate Shepherd to his love)
- Walter Raleigh (The Nymph's Reply to the shepherd)
-Edmund Spenser (The Shepheardes Calender; or Amoretti or ; Epithalamion)
-Queen Elizabeth (The doubt of future foes; or On Monsieur's departure; or Speech to the Troops at Tilbury)
Topic to choose from:
-Spiritual, religious,moral,philosophical, or ethical issue
-love(lust) as or versus war, combat or aggression
-Human-supernatural interactions
-the political or social content or implications of literature
-the ideal vs. the real
-symbols or image or thematic patterns
**** Example Edmund S (Amoretti), Shakespeare's (The rape of lucrece), and shakespeare (sonnet 129) topic lust