ENG 213 Final, Spring 2009

FINAL EXAM ENGL 213: Neoclassical and Romantic Age DR. SYRINE C. HOUT June 2009 TIME ALLOWED: 2.5 hrs. max. Directions: Choose ONE of the following three comparative essay questions. You need 2 texts (already specified) for whichever question you choose. Make sure to have a thesis in a complete, ORIGINAL, TRULY COMPARATIVE, and informed essay, with an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. Please proofread carefully! GOOD LUCK! 1. Compare and contrast the ‘contamination’ of ‘innocence’ in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper.” 2. Discuss vanity (poet’s view of himself) in Keats’ “When | Have Fears that | May Cease to Be” OR “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, and Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” OR “Ozymandias”. 3. Discuss pessimism in Byron’s “They Say that Hope is Happiness” and Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much with Us.”