English writing

Choose one of those poems:

A Noiseless Patient Spider

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174741

Digging

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177017

Select a theme that runs through one or more of the works discussed in class – gender roles, parent/child relationships, social/political conflict, the American Dream, etc. – comment on that theme.  Your comment can consider how the theme is present in today’s society, how it is depicted in the work, how it is depicted in other genres, or any number of other angles.