ENGL 200 D: Reading Literature: Literature in the Marketplace

This week, for your blog post, I’d like you to respond to the following prompt:

Choose one of the texts we’ve read so far (up through Swift and Montagu), and choose two words within it that you think are important. Write a paragraph for each word, describing how the author of the text uses it, and what it means to him/her, according to your interpretation.

What makes each word important to the author’s point? Is there anything unique or unusual about the way that a word is being used in the text? Does it contrast with the meaning that we use for the term today?

After you’ve written both paragraphs, write one more, to communicate to your readers why you chose the words, what connections exist between them, and why understanding them is important to reading the texts.

And, of course, tag your post with week2blog.