Write 3-4 sentences analyzing its resonance with the broader themes of the text as a whole.

A) PASSAGE ANALYSIS (45 pts total: 15 pts for each passage analysis)
Choose three of the following six passages from texts we have read this term. [Note: DO NOT respond to more than three passages; in the event that you do, only your first three responses will be marked.]
For each of your chosen three passages, you will a) write 1-2 sentences identifying the passage’s significance within its immediate context and b) write 3-4 sentences analyzing its resonance with the broader themes of the text as a whole. [For an example of a successful passage analysis, you may consult the Resources module in Quercus.]
In order to avoid confusion, please copy and paste each passage directly above your typed analysis.
1. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”
2. and
then i see it’s only the dream about the cows.
– Lucille Clifton, “my dream about the cows”
3. The white girl watching
does not know why and it doesn’t matter.
I spin spin, eat I don’t care for breakfast,
so what for lunch. She moves to me,
dark gaze, tongue hot to lips. The music
is hard, lights louder. She slides low
against my hip to hiss, go go Geronimo.
I stop.
– Mark Turcotte, “Burn”
4. LINDNER We feel—(gaining confidence in his mission because of the interest in the faces of the people he is talking to)—we feel that most of the trouble in this world, when you come right down to it—(He hits his knee for emphasis)—most of the trouble exists because people just don’t sit down and talk to each other.
RUTH (Nodding as she might in church, pleased with the remark) You can say that again, mister.
LINDNER (More encouraged by such affirmation) That we don’t try hard enough in this world to understand the other fellow’s problem. The other guy’s point of view.
RUTH Now that’s right.
(BENEATHA and WALTER merely watch and listen with genuine interest)
LINDNER Yes—that’s the way we feel out in Clybourne Park. And that’s why I was elected to come here this afternoon and talk to you people.
– Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
5. LYSANDER
Content with Hermia? No, I do repent
The tedious minutes I with her have spent.
Not Hermia, but Helena I love.
Who will not change a raven for a dove?
The will of man is by his reason swayed,
And reason says you are the worthier maid.
– William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
6. Neither of them knew where they were going, nor how long the journey might take. They did not even know why they were going, since neither of their mothers had quite known how to explain the danger to them. How do you say to your child, I am sending you away, because enemy bombs may fall out of the sky, but I myself am staying here, in what I believe may be daily danger of burning, being buried alive, gas, and ultimately perhaps a gray army rolling in on tanks over the suburbs? So the mothers (who did not resemble each other at all) behaved alike, and explained nothing—it was easier. Their daughters, they knew, were little girls, who would not be able to understand or imagine.
– A. S. Byatt, “The Thing in the Forest”

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6 hours ago
Choose whichever three its easier for you, Thank you

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