For Tuesday, please read the texts at the links below. Be sure to bring a printed copy with you to class. The first is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. The second is an essay about that poem by a literary critic, Gillen D’Arcy Wood. We’ll be talking about the content of both, but you should also think about the moves that Wood makes as a writer (the same way we did with the sample essay last Thursday).
In class I asked you to bring in a draft of your own essays on Tuesday, but I want to revise that a bit: just make sure you bring in your thesis statement. Bringing the draft with you is absolutely fine, then, but make sure you bring at least your thesis statement.