ENGL 10

Part       1             Short    Answer (40         points): Answer each of the        following            questions           in           a               short    paragraph. 1) How          is            the        modern idea      of           nature one       of           the        most               powerful            ideological           supports            for         ecological           destruction? 2) What     does     Poe’s               character            Dupin   show    us          about   how      we         think     about   the         potential            of               human reason? 3) What              are        the        picturesque       and       the        sublime and       how      do               they      shape   our         perception? 4) What     does     the        Crawler represent?        What    does     it               reveal  to           the        biologist? Part  2             Essay    (60         points): Choose one       of           the               following            and       write    an          essay    in           response            of           2-3         pages. 1) Discuss               the difference  between            Wordsworth and             Shelley’s             poetic   engagements  with      their               worlds. What    sets       the        two       apart    both     stylistically          and        in          terms   of           the               vision   that       each     poet’s  style     is            designed            to           express?              2) How do          the               various authors we         have     studied thus      far         explore the        function              of            anxiety as               a             motivator           for         human activity in           the        world? What    do          you       see        as                the       main     wellsprings        of           human anxiety?              How      do          you       think/feel           our                experience       of           being    a             body     within  the        world   shapes our        ideas    of           how               to           live         in          the        world? How does           a             novel    like        Annihilation work               through this        issue