Always prepare to tell & write about each assignment by answering the questions below & considering any themes & terms introduced on the syllabus for the assignment. In class, then, you will report what you find & compare your results with those of others in your WORKING GROUP or in GENERAL RECITATION.

BASIC QUESTIONSto ask yourself in preparing any assignment:

WHO: clues about person, voice, character, gender, etc.? Who does the speaking? Can you tell something about them & their world from the evidence in what they say & how they say it?

WHERE: clues about place-in-which & places to or from which: can you use names of persons & places as landmarks to discover cultural horizons & reconstruct the world known to the poet?

WHEN: clues about time, whether of action or historical period.

WHAT: clues about actions, ideas, values (what is considered worth talking about & to whom).

WHY: clues about motives (again a hint of values?) for speaking & acting.

Professor John B. Van Sickle. 
Boylan 2404; Telephone: 718/951-5191 (secretary), ext. 5078 (office).

E-mail: jvsickle@brooklyn.cuny.edu

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