Close reading: analysis of Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop.

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should, in some way, address the big-picture themes including,
for instance, these questions what does the speaker realize about her/himself?
• how does a particular place help the speaker understand him/herself as a person?
• what is the speaker thinking, feeling, or starting to realize about his/her place in the world?
• how does the speaker feel connected to or disconnected from a place? the world? or other
people? why does that matter?
• how does the speaker remember or recreate a special place in her/his mind?
Your close reading should offer an argument about the text. The objective to
practice articulating your ideas and the terms of your arguments. For that reason, you’ll generate the
topic, and then the question or the thesis statement, on your own;

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