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Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating Updike's "The Great Scarf of Birds."

Answers to the questions for analyzing and evaluating Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole."

Sixteen questions that guide a close reading of Donne's "The Flea," from speaker and tone to diction and imagery.

Passages of vision and blindness imagery in the first part of the play, with line numbers.

Passages of vision and blindness imagery from the middle of the play, with line numbers.

More passages of vision and blindness imagery from the middle of the play, with line numbers.

Passages of vision and blindness imagery from the whole play, with line numbers.

Questions on Hamlet's personality, the characters who reflect him, and Norman Holland's view of thought and action.

Questions on flowers and water around Ophelia, animals around Gertrude, and images of disease and decay.

Questions on the two waves of the play, the soliloquies, and other theories of how Hamlet is built.

A student model essay on the images of sickness, poison, incest, weeds, and birds.

The schedule and guidelines for three written analyses of key passages in Hamlet, with a student sample.