Essay Comparing Two Poems

Write a 500-750 word MLA formatted and cited essay on one of the following topics. The word count does not include formatting or the works cited page.  The essay is due Sunday of Week 2.  This is a firm deadline and the assignment will close.  You will not be able to submit the essay late  until I reopen the assignment for late submissions.  If you miss the Sunday deadline for any reason, your essay will be marked down 10 points if submitted in Week 3 and 15 points if submitted in Week 4.  After Week 4, the essay will not be accepted.
Before beginning your essay, and before submitting your essay, please read the attached Literary Essay Checklist very carefully.  It will help you to achieve the highest grade possible on your work.
Warning: Do not use open web sources such as Course Hero, Shmoop, Sparknotes, Gradesaver, or Wikipedia.  Doing so will result in a major deduction of points under the category of thesis and support.
Write a critical analysis of one of the works from weeks 1 or 2. An overview of approaches can be found here, but many are quite straightforward. Psychological, gender, sociological, biographical, and historical are all approaches that many use naturally in viewing a work. However, if your interest lies elsewhere, feel free to choose another approach.  Note- do not use the reader response approach, as it is too difficult to avoid first person if you take this approach.  Your writing must be in third person only, with no use of first or second person. 
With this paper, you must use primary sources (the assigned works of fiction or poetry) to support your ideas.  You need to be making an original argument, and backing that argument with direct quotations from the primary texts, properly cited.
 
Compare and contrast two of the stories from weeks 1 and 2. Be sure that you have isolated a strong and debatable thesis on which to build the essay. Simply pointing out the differences is not analysis. Toward that end, you may want to focus on a specific element of the stories.
With this paper, you must use primary sources (the assigned works of fiction ) to support your ideas.  You need to be making an original argument, and backing that argument with direct quotations from the primary texts, properly cited.
 
If there's an aspect of the stories from these two weeks that particularly interests you, you may choose your own topic, but you must run it by me first to be sure it is headed in an analytical direction.  I will need to hear from you no later than Tuesday of Week 2 if you wish to choose your own topic.
With this paper, you must use primary sources (the assigned works of fiction) to support your ideas.  You need to be making an original argument, and backing that argument with direct quotations from the primary texts, properly cited.
 
Your essay should be formatted in MLA style, including double spacing throughout. All sources should be properly cited both in the text and on a works cited page. As with most academic writing, this essay should be written in third person. Please avoid both first person (I, we, our, etc.) and second person (you, your).

In the upper left-hand corner of the paper, place your name, the professor’s name, the course name, and the due date for the assignment on consecutive lines. Double space your information from your name onward, and don't forget a title. All papers should be in Times New Roman font with 12-point type with one-inch margins all the way around your paper. All paragraph indentations should be indented five spaces (use the tab key) from the left margin. All work is to be left justified. When quoting lines in literature, please research the proper way to cite short stories, plays, or poems.

You should use the online APUS library to look for scholarly sources. You do not need outside sources for this essay. Be careful that you don’t create a "cut and paste" paper of information from your various sources. Your ideas are to be new and freshly constructed. Also, take great care not to plagiarize.
Whatever topic you choose you will need a debatable thesis. A thesis is not a fact, a quote, or a question. It is your position on the topic. The reader already knows the story; you are to offer him a new perspective based on your observations.
Since the reader is familiar with the story, summary is unnecessary. Rather than tell him what happened, tell him what specific portions of the story support your thesis. 
 
When you submit your essay, it will automatically submit to Turnitin.  No emailed essays will be accepted.  You must submit your essay here to Assignments to have it count for grading.
When you submit your essay to Turnitin, it may take a short while to receive your results.  Your report will be available to you and to me at the same time.
Any essay containing plagiarism will be returned marked zero.  You will not have a chance to make up the work, so please do original work and cite carefully.  Remember, to avoid plagiarism, any work you cite needs quotation marks, in-text citation, and Works Cited citation. 
Please review the university plagiarism policy carefully before submitting your first essay, so that you fully understand the university plagiarism policy.

For the first critical analysis i chose essay "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. Choose any of the analysis you'd like. No specific one I have chosen. For the second part in which you compare and contrast two poems, I chose "The Yellow Wallpaper" By Charlotte Perkins Gilman and compare and contrast with the poem "Way Prayer" By Mark Twain. Thank you and please let me know if there is anything i left out.