Analyze the different ways sex and sexual acts are portrayed in any three poems we’ve
read, such as “Th’Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame,” “I Would Like to Go Back as I
Am, Now, to You, as You Were, Then,” or “To His Coy Mistress.” How does the
speaker’s view of sex in each poem differ from that of the other speakers?
An introductory paragraph of at least four or five sentences that introduces the
book(s) and/or poems you are writing about and gives the titles and authors of each.
Remember that book titles should be italicized, and poem titles should be in
quotation marks. The last line of the introduction should be the thesis statement in
which you directly respond to one of the prompts above.
Distinct supporting sections with clear topic sentences that identify how that
particular section will support your thesis. Use details and examples (including at
least two quotations from the works you are writing about to illustrate your points. If
you are quoting from several different works for this essay, your parenthetical citations
need to identify the author as well as the page or line number. For example, after quoting
from “To His Coy Mistress,” your parenthetical citation should look something like this:
(Marvell l.22). For “The Man in a Case,” you can use the page number of the PDF copy
of the story, like this: (Chekhov 3).
A concluding paragraph
I provided the links to “Th’Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame” and “I Would Like to Go Back as I Am, Now, to You, as You Were, Then.”