Exercises

Exercise #1: Directions: Introduce the following quotations properly by following the rule for introducing a quotation. Provide citations (see rule #29) but no analysis. Each quote is being introduced for the first time in the essay.

1. There never was a sound beside the wood but one

And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground

What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself

Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun

Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound

(Robert Frost's poem "Mowing" lines 1-6)

1.

2. "Wilderness is not the enemy of civilization, but a necessity if that civilization is to live up to its potential as a human habitat." (Roderick Nash's essay "Why Wilderness?" page 70)

2.

3. There is a rapture on the lonely shore

There is a society where none intrudes

By the deep sea with music in its roar

I love not man the less, but nature more

(Lord Byron's poem "Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage lines 2-5)

3.

4. Much Madness is Divinest Sense

To a discerning eye-

Much sense the starkest madness."

(Emily Dickinson's poem "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" lines 1-3)

4.

5. And in the background a multitude of buildings, of pitiless hues and sternly high, were to him emblematic of a nation forcing its regal head into the clouds, throwing no downward glances in the sublimity of its aspirations ignoring the wretches who may flounder at its feet. The roar of the city in his ear was to him the confusion of strange tongues, babbling heedlessly; it was the clink of coin, the voice of the city's hopes, which were to him no hopes.

(Stephen Crane's short story "An Experiment in Misery page 147)

5.

6. Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most

comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. The dog sat

facing him and waiting. The brief day drew to a close in a long,

slow twilight. There were no signs of a fire to be made, and,

besides, never in the dog's experience had it known a man to sit

like that in the snow and make no fire.

(Jack London's short story "To Build a Fire" page 32)

6.

7. In the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under Aunt Sally's bed. But while we was gone for spiders little Thomas Franklin Benjamin Jefferson Elexander Phelps found it there, and opened the door of it to see if the rats would come out, and they did; and Aunt Sally she come in, and when we got back she was a-standing on top of the bed raising Cain, and the rats was doing what they could to keep off the dull times for her. So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock. I never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was.

(Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn page 203)

7.

8. In the swamp the banks were bare, the big cedars came together overhead, the sun did not come through, except in patches; in the fast deep water, in the half light, the fishing would be tragic. In the swamp the fishing would be a tragic adventure. Nick did not want it. He did not want to go down the stream any further today. (Ernest Hemingway's story "Big Two Hearted River" page 141)

8.

9. The appariation of these faces in a crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

(Ezra Pound's poem "In a Station of a Metro" lines 1-2)

9.

10. "At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make

Ambiguous undulations, as they sink

Downward toward darkness, on extended wings"

(Wallace Stevens's poem "Sunday Morning" lines 88-90)

10.

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Exercise #1: Directions: Introduce the following quotations properly by following the rule for introducing a quotation. Provide citations (see rule #29) but no analysis. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE INTRODUCED THE QUOTATIONS BY ALL FOUR METHODS BY THE END OF THE EXERCISE. FEEL FREE TO USE THE STARTERS FOR HELP.

1. There never was a sound beside the wood but one

And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground

What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself

Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun

Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound

(Robert Frost's poem "Mowing" lines 1-5)

1. In his poem "Mowing" Robert Frost discusses how quiet and tranquil the experience of mowing in a field of grass is. He writes:

There never was a sound beside the wood but one

And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground

What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself

Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun

Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound

(lines 1-5).

2. "Wilderness is not the enemy of civilization, but a necessity if that civilization is to live up to its potential as a human habitat." (Roderick Nash's essay "Why Wilderness?" page 70)

2. "Wilderness is not the enemy of civilization, but a necessity if that civilization is to live up to its potential as a human habitat,"writes Roderick Nash in his essay "Why Wilderness" that focuses on the moment in which the frontier closed in 1890 and the loss of de facto wilderness.

3. There is a rapture on the lonely shore

There is a society where none intrudes

By the deep sea with music in its roar

I love not man the less, but nature more

(Lord Byron's poem "Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage lines 2-5)

3. In his poem "Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage" Lord Byron expresses his passionate love for wild nature; he writes:

There is a rapture on the lonely shore

There is a society where none intrudes

By the deep sea with music in its roar

I love not man the less, but nature more

(lines 2-5).

4. Much Madness is Divinest Sense

To a discerning eye-

Much sense the starkest madness."

(Emily Dickinson's poem "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" lines 1-3)

4. In her poem "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" Emily Dickinson believes conformists are insane. Describing the value of being called insane by the comformists, her speaker states, "Much Madness is Divinest Sense / To a discerning eye- / Much sense the starkest madness."(lines 1-3).

5. And in the background a multitude of buildings, of pitiless hues and sternly high, were to him emblematic of a nation forcing its regal head into the clouds, throwing no downward glances; in the sublimity of its aspirations ignoring the wretches who may flounder at its feet. The roar of the city in his ear was to him the confusion of strange tongues, babbling heedlessly; it was the clink of coin, the voice of the city's hopes, which were to him no hopes.

(Stephen Crane's short story "An Experiment in Misery page 147)

5. Stephen Crane's story "An Experiment in Misery" is focused upon the effects of urban life upon the human self. Describing the relationship between the huge buildings and the tiny human, he writes:

And in the background a multitude of buildings,

of pitiless hues and sternly high, were to him

emblematic of a nation forcing its regal head into

the clouds, throwing no downward glances;

in the sublimity of its aspirations ignoring the

wretches who may flounder at its feet.

The roar of the city in his ear was to him the

confusion of strange tongues, babbling

heedlessly; it was the clink of coin, the voice of

the city's hopes, which were to him no hopes.

(Crane 147).

6. Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most

comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. The dog sat

facing him and waiting. The brief day drew to a close in a long,

slow twilight. There were no signs of a fire to be made, and,

besides, never in the dog's experience had it known a man to sit

like that in the snow and make no fire.

(Jack London's short story "To Build a Fire" page 32)

6. At the end of Jack London's story "To Build a Fire," the omniscient narrator articulates the last moment of the protagonist's life. He states:

Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most

comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. The dog sat

facing him and waiting. The brief day drew to a close in a long,

slow twilight. There were no signs of a fire to be made, and,

besides, never in the dog's experience had it known a man to sit

like that in the snow and make no fire.

(London 32).

7. In the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under Aunt Sally's bed. But while we was gone for spiders little Thomas Franklin Benjamin Jefferson

Elexander Phelps found it there, and opened the door of it to see if the rats would come out, and they did; and Aunt Sally she come in, and when we got back she was a-standing on top of the bed raising Cain, and the rats was doing what they could to keep off the dull times for her. So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as

much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen, drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther, because the first haul was the pick of the flock. I never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was.

(Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn page 203)

7. Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is full of chidish pranks; describing one of those pranks involving rats, Huck says:

In the morning we went up to the village and bought a

wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best

rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest

kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under

Aunt Sally's bed. But while we was gone for spiders little

Thomas Franklin Benjamin Jefferson

Elexander Phelps found it there, and opened the door of it

to see if the rats would come out, and they did; and

Aunt Sally she come in, and when we got back she was

a-standing on top of the bed raising Cain, and the rats

was doing what they could to keep off the dull times for her.

So she took and dusted us both with the hickry, and we was as

much as two hours catching another fifteen or sixteen,

drat that meddlesome cub, and they warn't the likeliest, nuther,

because the first haul was the pick of the flock. I never see

a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was.

(Twain 203).

8. In the swamp the banks were bare, the big cedars came together overhead, the sun did not come through, except in patches; in the fast deep water, in the half light, the fishing would be tragic. In the swamp the fishing would be a tragic adventure. Nick did not want it. He did not want to go down the stream any further today.

(Ernest Hemingway's story "Big Two Hearted River')

8. The last story of Ernest Hemingway's unified story collection In Our Time is "Big Two Hearted River." Expressing his desire to avoid fishing deep waters, the omniscient narrator states:

In the swamp the banks were bare, the big cedars came together overhead,

the sun did not come through, except in patches; in the fast deep water,

in the half light, the fishing would be tragic. In the swamp the fishing

would be a tragic adventure. Nick did not want it. He did not want to go

down the stream any further today.

(Hemingway 141).

9. The appariation of these faces in a crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

(Ezra Pound's poem "In a Station of a Metro" lines 1-2)

9. In his famous imagist poem"In a Station of a Metro" Ezra Pound describes the faces of subway passengers; he writes, "The appariation of these faces in a crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough." (lines 1-2).

10. "At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make

Ambiguous undulations, as they sink

Downward toward darkness, on extended wings"

(Wallace Stevens's poem "Sunday Morning" lines 88-90)

10. In his poem "Sunday Moring" Wallace Stevens wants to find salvation in the actual physical qualities of this world. Describing the beauty of actual birds at dusk, he writes, "At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make / Ambiguous undulations, as they sink / Downward toward darkness, on extended wings" (lines 88-90)