PROMPT:
Write a 2,000-word paper in which you compose an arguable thesis about a poem we’ve read,
supported by close readings of passages from the text. Your paper should engage with two (2)
scholarly articles about your chosen text or your critical framework. Your own thesis, in addition
to being arguable, should incorporate, disagree with, or build upon the readings of other scholars.
POEM (for the critical essay):
The poem is, William Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis”
POSSIBLE THESIS:
love, unrequitted love, power dynamics, sexual perversity in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
POSSIBLE SCHOLARLY ARTICLES (if there are better sources that cover the above stated themes, please utilize those):
1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3507974.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A3a3c7287cba5ddb2393ecbb536ea832d&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&origin=
2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/90025241.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Aa0dc8458555574c70e5ad0c862049732&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&origin=