Compare and contrast the poems and/or poets within this week’s reading. You may compare poems by the same poet, or poems across more than one poet. Have a debatable, persuasive claim and focus on specific points of comparison, using the Lesson in week 7 to guide your structure. Please consult the MLA handbook if you are in doubt about citation form. Poems: Read: Sharon Olds, First Thanksgiving at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53387 Read: Sharon Olds, Still Life in Landscape at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53386 Read: Sharon Olds, After Making Love in Winter at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=36723 Read: Sharon Olds, The Planned Child at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=36230 Read: Linda Pastan, A Rainy Country at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=42085 Read: Linda Pastan, I Am Learning to Abandon the World at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/34957 Read: Linda Pastan, The Obligation to Be Happy at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/39788 Read: Linda Pastan, Why Are Your Poems So Dark? at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/41918 Read: Larry Levis, SIgns at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47941 Read: Larry Levis, To a Wren on Calvary at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47946 Read: Larry Levis, Winter Stars at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53388 Submission Instructions: Your essays should be in MLA Style and approximately 1625-1950 words (no more; no less), not including the list of class info and Work(s) Cited page. Meeting the minimum word requirement makes you eligible for a C grade. Meeting the maximum word requirements makes you eligible for an A grade. Tone: As with most academic writing, this essay should be written in third person. Do not use both first person (I, we, our, etc.) and second person (you, your). Layout: Your essays should be in the MLA Style. In the upper left-hand corner of the paper, place your name, the professor’s name, the course name, and the due date for the assignment on consecutive lines. Double space your information from your name onward, and don’t forget a title. All papers should be in Times New Roman font with 12-point type with one-inch margins all the way around your paper. All paragraph indentations should be indented five spaces (use the tab key) from the left margin. All work is to be left justified. When quoting lines in literature, please use the proper way to cite short stories, plays, or poems.