Hello Everyone! I am scrambling to choose the right thesis for my paper, and I would really love your help! As I wrote a
blog post reflecting on the topics that have interested me the most from English class, I narrowed them down to claiming that nonfiction should be formally considered as a genre of literature and arguing that there is a limit to which poetry should be analyzed before you actually lose its theme. I framed these in different formats as shown below:
Although there are many advantages to analyzing the poetic form, one should not go so far into analyzing a poem so far that it looses its original intended meaning. ( I would attempt to support my claim by analyzing Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much With Us.")
Though some may argue that a memoir, such as Night by Elie Wiesel, is defined as a mere historical account of an event in a person's life, this genre of nonfiction should be formally recognized as a literary work due to the literary elements it employs to convey the reader.
Wiesel's employment of a detailed description of his experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp are a powerful element in conveying his struggle to believe in a just God; however, it is important to recognize that it is the literary elements that he embellishes his work with that become the main vessel to this theme.
Although it is important to analyze the literary elements in "The World Is Too Much With Us" in order to understand the underlying theme that is emphasized through this, if the breaking apart is taken too far, one might lose meaning instead of finding it.
Although through his constant imagery of the cruelty suffered by many Wiesel attempts to transmit to his audience the feelings he felt regarding God's injustice, the circling of this theme might actually have caused the reader to believe Wiesel was battling within to salvage hope in a divine power.
Well, those are my ideas!
What do you think? I hope that thesis hunting is going well for you all!
I like your last two best. You could apply Wordsworth's "We murder to dissect" thought to "The World is Too Much With Us." I'm curious to know where you draw the line with respect to killing things through analysis. I'm wondering where you might take that, and that's a good sign of a good thesis.
ReplyDeleteI liked all of these and I think they are good examples of what a thesis should be because as a reader I know where you will be going with your paper.
ReplyDeleteYea I like your second to last one. I also am wondering where the line is drawn--if it is a specific amount of criticism or what. I'm sure you'll use specific examples to illustrate when criticism goes too far.
ReplyDeleteI like your evaluation claim. Partly because I like that idea of a topic better than the nonfiction one haha. But I think you should be specific about what is going to far. (Obviously this was mentioned above so yay to me for having an original thought....not)
ReplyDelete(I've tried to post this comment like 5 times and it keeps erasing it, so if they eventually all show up, sorry for spamming your post!) I actually really like your policy claim. I think sometimes that's a problem with literature. We overanalyze things, like the blue curtains must be indicative of the author's political opinions or bipolar moods. Sometimes the curtains are just blue. I think you could make great points about the author's true meaning being lost as well as the magic of it being lost. It would be important though to make sure that you can provide solid, concrete evidence of analysis that appears to distort the author's meaning
ReplyDeleteI vote for the definition or the cause and effect claim. I like where they will lead.
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