Lit1000: Writing about Paired Texts

Text

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

You can find the full text of the story online at this link: https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/webtexts/hour/

You can find the audio version of this story online at this link: http://media.nypl.org/audio/discussions_2014_03_07_hour.mp3

"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

You can find the full text of the story online at this link: https://lirroaringtwenties.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/5/3/14539476/hemingway-hills-like-white-elephants.pdf

You can find the full audio of this story online at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPCyhMDZQHo

“Trifles” by Susan Glaspell

You can find the full text of the play online at this link: http://www.english.unt.edu/~simpkins/Trifles.pdf

You can listen to the full audio version of the play online at this link; when you open the link, choose the "play" button next to Act I at the bottom of the webpage: https://librivox.org/trifles-by-susan-glaspell

You can watch a performance of the play online at this link, but if you choose to watch the performance, be sure you do so with your book in front of you so that you can see what choices they made in terms of what lines to cut from the original text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1LGwPFeSz8

Poem

“The White House” by Claude McKay

You can find the full text of the poem here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/white-house

You can listen to a reading of the poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tikCjM2if_8

"Yet Do I Marvel" by Countee Cullen

You can find the full text and listen to an audio version of the poem here: http://www.favoritepoem.org/poem_YetDoIMarvel.html

"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

 You can find the full text of the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44203/we-wear-the-mask

You can listen to the audio version of the poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyc-aTlV9nY

"I, Too" by Langston Hughes

You can find the full text of the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-too

You can listen to an audio version of the poem read by the poet here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiCWngPt-L4

"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden

You can find the full text of the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46461/those-winter-sundays

You can find an audio version of the poem read by the poet here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmJYs6PQKVc

"Barbie Doll" by Read Marge Piercy

You can find a reading and visual interpretation of the poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6vWT3vaJMI

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

You can find the full text and a reading of the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken