GROUP 1: EDGAR ALLAN POE

Discuss:
(a) How his use of words created, in his works, a pervasive tone of melancholy, a longing for lost love,
and a preoccupation with death
(b) His Tales of the Macabre; and
(c) How characters from The Cask of Amontillado relates to him.

Suggested reading/s:
 The Raven
 Annabel Lee
 The Cask of Amontillado

GROUP 2: EMILY DICKINSON

Discuss:
(a) How she challenged traditional gender roles by being a writer; and
(b) Samples of short lines, lacked titles, unconventional capitalization, punctuation, and slant
rhyme in her works.

Suggested reading/s:
 ‘I’m Nobody! Who are you?’
 ‘I heard a Fly buzz－when I died’
 ‘The heart asks Pleasure－first’

GROUP 3: ERNEST HEMINGWAY (roman à clef)

Discuss:
(a) The Lost Generation (the post-world war generation) and their writing style;
(b) His iceberg style of writing; and
(c) His use of roman à clef.

Suggested reading/s:
 The Sun Also Rises (Summary only)

You may want to check the summary and analysis of the text on course hero.

GROUP 4: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Discuss:
(a) Romanticism in literature and how is celebrated nature and individuality.

Suggested reading/s:
 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud