Guidelines: 3 pages, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, parenthetical citations (no bibliography required). Please do not use outside sources.

In this assignment, I ask you to write a three-page close analysis focused on a particular topic, idea, theme, or motif from one of the poems we have read thus far.  By analysis, I mean that your paper should engage in close detail with the language of the text. A close reading typically does the following:

It strives to

• Focus on linguistic details, such as an authors use of figurative language
• Draw meaning from the details of the text
• Connect broader claims to textual evidence
• Show sophisticated attention to themes and ideas that are not self-evident (i.e., that are not simply true or false)
• Demonstrate the evolution of a concept or idea (for example, friendship in Gilgamesh: how does this idea evolve throughout the poem?)
• It avoids
• Plot summary/paraphrase
• Digression
• Over-use of quotation
• Broad generalization (e.g., Since the beginning of time or In Miltons time, everyone thought )
• Vague language

• *attached files is the story of genisis this will be the story the assignment will be based on