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