Romantic Poetry
Step 1: Choose Your Topic
Find and explain Romantic themes in:
 “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”
 “The Tyger”
 “The Divine Image” and “The Human Abstract”
 “The Divine Image”
 “The Human Abstract”
 “Ozymandias”
Topic Sentences
1. Come up with 3-4 topics for body paragraphs.
My topics were:
1. Man’s attempt to control nature
2. Negative effects on the citizens of London
3. Pollution caused by industrialization
2. Using your ideas, write the topic sentences for your
body paragraphs. (These are the Ps of your PQE)
My topic sentences were:
1. Immediately in the first stanza the speaker discusses man’s attempt to
control nature.
2. The constraints civilization has placed on the natural world have an
immediate, negative effect on the citizens of London.
3. The soot and other grime associated with the factories and other miracles
of the industrial world have taken their toll on the city as well.
Supporting your topics with textual evidence
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For each topic:
 Choose 2 or 3 pieces of evidence from the poem
(quote)
 Write them under each topic
○ Include the line number
Topic:
1. Man’s attempt to control nature
1. Charter’d streets (1)
2. Charter’d Thames (2)
3. Mind-forged manacles (8)
2. Pollution caused by industrialization
1. Chimney-sweepers (9)
2. Blackening churches (10)
Supporting Sentences
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Use the work you did yesterday to write the
supporting sentences for your body paragraphs.
 For each idea from your brainstorming sheet, you
need BOTH:
○ a Q sentence
 NO QUOTE BOMBS!!!
○ an E sentence
 Explain how your quote connects to your thesis (last sentence
of intro)
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Your final product will be THREE double PQEs
Body Paragraphs: Concluding Sentences
 What
is the purpose of a concluding
sentence?
 Draws a conclusion based on the
information set forth in the paragraph
 Offer a final observation about the
controlling idea
My Concluding Sentences
1. Both the walls containing the streets and
the river and the restraints on the mind
are man-made.
3. Man, in his drive toward progress and
industrialization, has destroyed the
innocence of the children and stained the
purity of God.
Body Paragraphs: Concluding Sentences
Body Paragraphs: Concluding Sentences
What goes in an Introduction?
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TAG
 author and title mandatory
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Premise
 Define and explain the Romantic theme that goes with your poem
 Information found in notes and taken from discussion
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Thesis Statement
 How is the poem an example of the Romantic theme?
Sample Introduction:
What goes in a Conclusion?
Your conclusion should mirror your introduction,
but should not merely restate/rephrase it.

TAG
 author and title mandatory

Credit to the author
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Restated thesis
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Evaluation of purpose
These do not have to be
in this order, nor do they
all need to be separate
sentences.
 Why should the reader care about the points you made in your
essay?
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Concluding sentence
 Wrap ‘er up!
Most importantly, do NOT introduce new
information in your conclusion!
Sample Conclusion
No new pink ideas!
(examples from the poem)
Sample Conclusion
No new pink ideas!
(examples from the poem)
Sample Conclusion
The elements are in a different
order in this example.
BAD Conclusion
The basic points of René Girard’s theory surrounding
violence and the sacred are illustrated beautifully in
Shakespeare’s Othello. The ideas of the Sacrificial Crisis,
Mimetic Desire, and the Sacrificial Victim are all prevalent
within the plot. Upon first reading, the motivations of some
the characters in Othello may seem allusive. Iago’s
objectives appear to be little more than random desires and
the apparent inability of Othello to break the cycle of deceit
and violence is exasperating. However, if the play is viewed
through Girard’s theory, the idiosyncrasies of the characters
make more sense. Even though Girard’s book, Violence and
the Sacred, mainly pertains to the world of anthropology,
Girard uses the stories of Greek Tragedy to illustrate many of
his points. He criticizes the belief held by many scientists
that “‘literature’ is basically innocuous and ultimately
meaningless” (Girard 206). “Indeed,” he says, “one cannot
but wonder how attentive readers [. . .] have managed to
overlook it” (Girard 73).
Bad Conclusion FIXED!
The pink ideas have been
removed! (woot.)