Department of English Language and Literature

Engl. 435 Modern Poetry: Spring Semester 2019 – 2020

FINAL EXAM
IMAGES ARE INCLUDED IN VERSION POSTED ON RITAJ AS AN ATTACHMENT
Choose a poem studied on this course and draw a connection between the poem and one of the images
given below. Your answer should show a clear understanding of the following elements:
1. The Context of the work of art. (A brief introduction and analysis of the poem and image).
Here you MAY use external sources which must be correctly cited: 20%
2. An analysis and explanation of the emotion that the two works arouse in you. Here you may
NOT use any external sources: 60%
3. A clear explanation of the unity of the connection that you find between the poem and image
chosen. Here you may NOT use any external sources: 20%

Your response in the form of an academic essay of between 3 – 4 pages must be uploaded to Moodle
as a word document and will be graded against the following rubric:

Grade Rational
0 - 60 1: Your essay shows 2: Your essay fails to 3: There is no evidence 4: There is no
evidence of identify the required of a clear evidence of the course
plagiarism components of the understanding of the lecture notes used to
question. There is no poem identified or support the response.
evidence of personal chosen image.
reflection
60 - 70 1: There is limited 2: There is limited 3: There are 4: There is limited
evidence of an evidence of correct grammatical and evidence of the course
understanding of the citation of external language issues that lecture notes used to
poem chosen with the course material to hinder clear support the response.
identified image. support the response. understanding of the
There is limited evidence response
of personal reflection
70 - 80 1: There is evidence 2: There is evidence of 3: There are few 4: There is evidence
of an understanding of research and correct language errors that of the lecture notes
the relationship citation of external hinder understanding of being used to support
between the chosen source material. There is the response. the response.
poem and image evidence of personal
reflection
80-90 There is clear 2: There is strong 3: There are only minor 5: There is strong
evidence supported by evidence of research and language issues that in evidence of the
quotes that the student correct citation of no way hinder lecture notes being
has a solid external sources. There understanding of the used to support the
understanding of the is strong evidence of essay. response.
identified poem and personal reflection
image as they relate to
the question.
90-100 There is very strong 2: The research is 3: There are no 4: There is strong and
evidence of a clear extensive, well language issues that appropriate evidence
understanding documented and hinder understanding of of the lecture notes
identified poem and correctly cited. There is the response. being used to support
image as they relate to strong evidence of the response.
the question. original and compelling
personal reflection.
 IMAGES
1: Artist: Claude Monet, San Giorgio Maggiore by Twilight

2: Architect-Zaha Mohammad-Hadid: Heydar-Aliyev-Centre

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3: Artist, Rodin: Le Penseur / The Thinker

4: Photographer: Robert Capa: The Falling Soilder (From the Spanish Civil War)