Be sure that your essay has a thesis; that is, a critical approach to the topic, or a clearly formulated point of view or argument that is supported by specific references to the appropriate texts in the course. Compare the images , Plath, and Dickinson use to suggest the potential power of words. List of Poems covered in the course: Plath -“The Disquieting Muses” -“Words” -“Lady Lazarus” -“Edge” Dickinson -Im Nobody! Who are you? ( – Mineby the Right of the White Election! – A solemn thingit wasI said – Come slowlyEden! – A Word made Flesh is seldom – Tell all the truth but tell it slant – Theres a certain Slant of light – They shut me up in Prose – I dwell in Possibility – Volcanoes be in Sicily -“One not be a chamber”
