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LITERARY ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT 01

READ AND WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT FOR THESE THREE PEOMS “FOXTROT, SHOTS, AND BOY FOR SALE”.

Using “A Glossary of Terms for Literary Analysis” in the “Syllabus and Other Resources” section of our Blackboard, choose three of those terms and critically consider them for this excerpt of Colin Halloran’s poems. You might choose “Setting” and “Point of View” and “Characters,” for instance. I do not care which three literary terms you choose to use.

In general, a good and thorough analysis for each term will probably be between 200 – 400 words, though that’s not a hard-and-fast rule. I’ve also posted in the “Syllabus and Other Resources” section of Blackboard a “Grading Rubric for Literary Analyses” so you can better understand the quality, for which, I’m looking.

I do not expect you to be literary experts; however, I do expect you to read, re-read, and thoroughly engage with this story and put some serious thought and effort into this assignment.

Literary Term for Analysis 01:

Literary Term for Analysis 02:

Literary Term for Analysis 03:

FOXTROT

I got in a month of college before my orders came,

but I wouldn’t just end the semester. Not me.

I worked double, prepping for mobilization,

being a college freshman, only four courses.

Mobilization: getting equipment, medical evaluations,

paperwork, paperwork, paperwork, training for combat,

formations, movements, how to stop a sucking chest wound.

College: the history of theatre, anthro: “diversity and inequality”,

Mann and Hesse: “the artist in society”, women and American law.

Textbooks, novels, plays, court cases, essays.

Field manuals, intro to Pashto, facts about Afghanistan

and a different writing assignment: my last will and testament.

At 19 what do you have to leave to those you love?

A 4 year-old Jetta, stereo, CD collection.

I leave my concert t-shirts to…

Harder than any essay I could’ve been assigned.

And I had to miss class, not too much, but enough,

apparently, to violate attendance policies,

get me an F in Anthro – though my work produced an A.

I had the documentation,

the prof knew the situation,

but I guess I went against his politics.

So I went to war with an F in anthropology

and a form written will,

leaving what little I had in the hands of my brother,

and forcing me to spend what little downtime I could muster

between missions on global phone calls to university officials

so if I returned from the desert, rendered my will unnecessary,

there wouldn’t be a black mark on my transcript.

SHOTS

Shots.

Smallpox. Hep. A. B.

Shots.

Boarding. Arriving.

Carolina. Kyrgyzstan.

Bragg. Bagram.

Shots.

Fired. Received. Returned.

Shots.

Echo. Remembered.

Shots.

Whiskey. Straight.

Poured. Drunk.

Shots.

Forgotten.

Never.

BOY FOR SALE

Fourteen, eleven, twenty.

The taller boy

approaches across the barren land

with a piece of paper in his hand,

a picture of the second.

Eleven years old, he hears

the asking price for his own life.

Twenty dollars: negotiable.

The place has come to this:

boys asking you

to buy their brothers.