English – Cheap Research Essays

Text and Context(s) Assignment

This assignment is based on a poem named “Eloisa to Abelard”
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174158

For the choosing passage please check the “Choosing Passage.pdf”

Discover and explore the rich and intricate ways that historical context can illuminate literary works. It is often revealing to study the early modern period and then to reflect on the ways in which Shakespeare is a product of it, or to consider how MorteDarthurreflects the morals and culture of medieval England. In this essay, you will be asked to explore precisely such a relationship.
Your essay will begin with a discussion of the specific historical or cultural context that you are bringing to bear on the study of a passage. You should choose a specific aspect of the period under study—its politics, position on religion, theories of economics, understanding of gender, etc.—and then turn this lens on your chosen text.
Your essay should be 4-5 paragraphs, double-spaced.
Your first paragraph should introduce both the text and the historical context you intend to explore in the essay (50 points).
Your second and third paragraphs should be dedicated to developing your reader’s understanding of this context more specifically, using the readings from the week(Check the file named “Diary.pdf”, and “Vidoes.docx”), the group-provided handouts (Check out the upload files), and/or references to class as your evidence (50 points).

Your fourth and fifth paragraphs
1. Should connect your chosen passage to the specific historical and cultural evidence you’ve supplied (50 points).
2. The whole of your essay should be proof-read and written in a formal tone (50 points)
3. Should show substantial engagement with the course materials (The yellow and blue highlight) and assignment (50 points).
Canst thou forget that sad, that solemn day,
When victims at yon altar’s foot we lay?
Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell,
When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell?
As with cold lips I kiss’d the sacred veil,
The shrines all trembl’d, and the lamps grew pale:
Heav’n scarce believ’d the conquest it survey’d,
And saints with wonder heard the vows I made.
Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew,
Not on the Cross my eyes were fix’d, but you:
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.