Choose one of the following questions and write an essay in answer that is at least 1,200 words (four full pages with bit on the 5th). You should use your book for quotations and other supporting material, but do not use any other outside sources.

1) Each of the poets we have studied comments in some way on the nature of the poetic imagination. Choose two poets and compare and contrast their constructions of the poet.

2) With each of the writers we have looked at thus far, we have spent a good deal of time in discussing the contradictions at work in their poems or essays. This move is very much a deconstructive move. Choose one author and deconstruct particular aspect of his or her writing. You may use multiple works by the same author. Remember that in order to deconstruct, you must first construct (i.e. do the New Critical type reading).

3) The shadow of William Wordsworth haunts the later Romantics we have read. Compare and contrast two of these authors' responses to this influential poetic figure. Here, you must spend some amount of time discussing Wordsworth as well.

4) What is at stake in the William Wordsworth's "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" and Percy Shelley's "The Defense of Poetry"? Compare and contrast the specifically Romantic issues do Wordsworth and Shelley address their essays. You may choose just a few of these issues to discuss in your answer.

5) Compare and contrast responses to the Alps of two of the writers we have studied.

6) Each of the women writers we have studied directly or indirectly addresses the difficulties involved in women's authorship. In what ways to they relate to their male contemporaries? How do the diverge from or converge with issues of Romanticism. Choose two writers and compare and contrast their responses.