Analyze one poem alongside of Becketts Waiting for Godot. Youre using points of comparison and contrast between the poem you choose and the play to argue something related to either (or both of) the texts. So, perhaps something in one of the poems really helps us understand a part of Becketts Godotthats the sort of thinking and analysis this option requires. This option as well will include a thesis that explains what is to be gained from analyzing this poem and play together. Remember, your analysis must serve some larger, interpretive argument you want to make about these texts.

Analyze one poem alongside of Becketts Waiting for Godot. Youre using points of comparison and contrast between the poem you choose and the play to argue something related to either (or both of) the texts. So, perhaps something in one of the poems really helps us understand a part of Becketts Godotthats the sort of thinking and analysis this option requires. This option as well will include a thesis that explains what is to be gained from analyzing this poem and play together. Remember, your analysis must serve some larger, interpretive argument you want to make about these texts.
Evaluation Criteria

Appropriate response to the prompt–read the prompt several times.
4-5 full pages in length; proper use of MLA format
Clear thesis statement that is developed throughout the essay (i.e. a specific, arguable point being made). You should argue for a certain interpretation of the text(s) with which you work, and this thesis should guide the whole essay.
Carefully thought out introduction
Avoid weak verbs throughout paper
A focused purpose in your writing not too broad
Evidence of critical thinking; avoiding the obvious
Not just a discussion of the presence of tropes/binaries/characteristics without that discussion being used to support a central, argumentative point (thesis) that is being argued throughout the essay.
Appropriate stylistic choices

Cubes by Langston Hughes

MLA citation: Hughes, Langston. Cubes. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Ed. Arnold Rampersad. New York: Vintage, 1995. Print.

In the days of the broken cubes of Picasso
And in the days of the broken songs of the young men
A little too drunk to sing
And the young women
A little too unsure of love to love
I met on the boulevards of Paris
An African from Senegal

God
Knows why the French
Amuse themselves bringing to Paris
Negroes from Senegal.

It’s the old game of the boss and the bossed,
boss and the bossed,
amused
and
amusing,
worked and working,
Behind the cubes of black and white,
black and white,
black and white

But since it is the old game,
For fun
They give him the three old prostitutes of
France
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
And all three of ’em sick
In spite of the tax to the government
And the legal houses
And the doctors
And the Marseillaise.

Of course, the young African from Senegal
Carries back from Paris
A little more disease
To spread among the black girls in the palm huts.
He brings them as a gift
disease
From light to darkness
disease
From the boss to the bossed
disease
From the game of black and white
disease
From the city of the broken cubes of Picasso
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