ENGLISH 2332 WORLD LIT I

SAMPLE ESSAY EXAM

From the following passages, select ONE ONLY in which you identify the title of the work, the speaker, and the context of the passage; i.e., how does the passage relate to the overall action or theme? Then offer your interpretation of the meaning of the passage. Be specific in your language; offer analysis rather than summary.

 

`Glory and light of poets! now may that zeal

and life's apprenticeship that I poured out

on your heroic verses serve me well!

For you are my true master and first author, the sole

maker from whom I drew the breath

of that sweet style whose measures have brought me honor.'

 

  `For one may keep a deed dark, but undo it no whit.

For where a fault is made fast, it is fixed evermore.'

 

'~~O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!

The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword;

The expectancy and rose of the fair state,

The glass of fashion and the mould of form,

The observ'd of all observers, quite quite down!'

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