Develop a focused position explaining the relevance of a literary work we’ve read for our own time based on close reading and thoughtful research. Why is it important to be read now?

Expectations: Include an introduction and conclusion, a Works Cited list, a thesis that takes a specific position on the whole question, at least one secondary source, a thorough discussion of specific details and a sense of the rationale for selecting them (using both brief direct quotations and textual references, correctly cited in MLA format), and a strong focus that connects your thesis and all the details you choose to analyze. Use identifying tags. If the author of your chosen text(s) is unknown, you may refer to them as the poet. Avoid plot summary, unsupported historical assertions, and unexplained description. Revise and proofread carefully.

Examples: (these are the kinds of articles that could also be secondary sources)

https://theconversation.com/in-todays-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-echoes-of-virgils-aeneid-74738 (Links to an external site.)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/20/classics-for-the-people-ancient-greeks (Links to an external site.)

https://www.futurity.org/dante-divine-comedy-hell-1299902-2/ (Links to an external site.)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-dante-is-relevant-tod_b_4790634 (Links to an external site.)

https://readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/four-ways-dante-still-matters-today/ (Links to an external site.)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180604-dante-and-the-divine-comedy-he-took-us-on-a-tour-of-hell (Links to an external site.)

https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1619&context=linfield_magazine