The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

After you have read and annotated all of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," reread the translation (in the footnotes) of the epigraph. Considering what we read in "Tradition and the Individual Talent," what do you think of Eliot's choice of epigraph? Why the choice to allude to an epic about a journey through hell? How do you think form and content work together in this poem? Your response should refer to specific lines or words in both the poem and the epigraph and to what the commenters before you say. Remember this is a conversation...

Steinbeck's Central Argument in The Grapes of Wrath

After reading and considering Chapter 1 of Everything's an Argument, what do you understand Steinbeck's central argument to be? How does he use literary devices common in fiction to present that argument? What rhetorical devices and strategies does he employ? How effectively does he present this argument? Use specific textual evidence to support your comment.

American Literary Tradition

What would T.S. Eliot say about the pieces we've read over the summer--how do they fit in, if at all, to the American Literary tradition? Use specific textual evidence to support your answer from AT LEAST one text we read over the summer.