STUDENTEREKSAMEN ENGELSK A-NIVEAU

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Assignment:
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1. Write an essay (700-900 words) in which you analyse and interpret Yellow. To
put your interpretation of Yellow into perspective, your essay must include a
discussion of at least two of the other items listed below. One of these must be
a text.
2. Give a brief account (200-300 words) of the view of man versus nature as it
appears in the extract from Wordsworth's poem Lines Composed a Few Miles
Above Tintern Abbey and compare it to Yellow.
Texts
1. From Yellow, a short story by Peter Carty, first published in Neonlit, Quartet Books
1999.
2. Prospice, a poem by Robert Browning, 1889, published in The Norton Anthology
of English Literature, W.W. Norton & Company 1974.
3. From 50 years - My Story, an essay by Sir Edmund Hillary, published in National
Geographic, May 2003.
4. What is Reckless Op About?, a quotation from http://recklessop.com/
5. Suicide's Note, 1926, a poem by Langston Hughes, published in Selected Poems of
Langston Hughes, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. 1959.
6. From Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, a poem by William
Wordsworth, 1798, published in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, W.W.
Norton & Company 1974.
Picture
Caspar David Friedrich, The Sea of Ice, an oil painting from c 1823/24, in Caspar David
Friedrich and Romantic Painting, Terrail 1994.