Explain how the narrative addresses the theme of Social Conflict.

Hmwk: Rd: T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (PDF), James Merrill’s “The Broken Home” (pp. 472-74), Robert Lowell’s “For the Union Dead” (pp.588-90), E. St Vincent Milay’s “Apostrophe to Man” (p. 310), Claud McKay’s “If We Must Die” (p. 312), e.e. cumming’s “i sing of Olaf glad and big,” “next to of course god america i,” (pp. 316-17), Muriel Rukeyser’s “Poem” (p. 335-6), and Wallace Stevens’ From “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction” (p. 332)

Hmwk: Submit either Assignment One or Assignment Two (required length: TWO pages) 

Assignment One

Choose a work from the assigned readings and do the following:

a. Explain how the narrative addresses the theme of Social Conflict.

b. Use the text to cite specific examples for support of your explanation.

Assignment Two

Choose a work from the assigned readings and do the following:

1. Explain the author’s views on war as expressed through the narrative.

2. Use the text to cite specific examples for support of your explanation.