Compare and analyze 2 poems

Your exploration should adhere to the following formatting requirements: three to five pages, double-spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font, and containing one-inch margins. You should use current APA style guidelines (or another format approved by your instructor) for your citations and reference list.

Describe the cultural artifactsthat you have chosen. Consider questions such as these in your response: What is the name or title of the artifact? Who is the author or artist? What is the date or time period when the artifact was created? What is the cultural location or physical setting of the artifact? In addition, you could consider including a photograph or image of each cultural artifact, if they are visual artifacts.
Identify at least one common themethat will serve as the framework of your exploration document. How is the theme expressed in your artifacts?
Explain how the theme you identified is related to your personal experience. For instance, you could discuss how the expression of the theme in your cultural artifacts is connected to you personally.
Discuss a professionthat could be impacted by the theme you identified. In other words, how is the theme you identified related to professional experiences? How could a working knowledge of the humanities be useful in this field?
Describe at least three humanities resourcesthat you could use to investigate your theme and artifacts. Your sources must be relevant to your theme and of an appropriate academic nature. In your description, consider some questions such as: What are the similarities and differences in the content of your sources? What makes them appropriate and relevant for investigating your issue? What was your thought process when you were searching for sources? How did you make choices? Did you encounter any obstacles, and, if so, how did you overcome them? If you did not, why do you think it was so easy to find what you needed?
Use the humanities resources that you selected to research your theme and cultural artifacts, making sure that you cite your sources. Based on your research:
1. Discuss the relationship between each cultural artifact and its historical context. In other words, what were the circumstances under which each artifact was created?
2. Explain the similarities and differencesthat you observe in the cultural artifacts you selected, in relation to the theme. For instance, do the artifacts contain any symbolism? If so, how are the symbols both similar and different? What do the symbols tell you about each artifact?
3. Discuss the medium, such as literature, music, or sculpture, through which your cultural artifacts were created. For instance, how did the creator(s) of each artifact use the medium to convey something about the meaning of the artifact?
Based on your research, develop a thesis statementthat conveys the claim you plan to make about your theme and artifacts. Your thesis statement should be clear, specific, and arguable.
Based on your research, identify an audiencethat would be interested in your theme and thesis statement. For example, who would benefit most from hearing your message?
Describe how and why you can tailor your messageto your audience, providing specific examples based on your research. For example, will your audience understand the terminology and principles used by humanities scholars, or will you need to explain these? How will you communicate effectively with your audience?
Provide a reference listthat includes all of the humanities resources you used to research your artifacts, theme, and thesis statement. Ensure that your list is formatted according to current APA guidelines (or another format, with instructor permission).

“THE ART OF DROWNING” BY BILLY COLLINS

In this poem published in 1995, Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003, begins to wonder about what it would mean to have your life flash before your eyes. (250 words)
I wonder how it all got started, this business
about seeing your life flash before your eyes
while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,
could startle time into such compression, crushing
decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds.

After falling off a steamship or being swept away
in a rush of floodwaters, wouldn’t you hope
for a more leisurely review, an invisible hand
turning the pages of an album of photographs—
you up on a pony or blowing out candles in a conic hat.

How about a short animated film, a slide presentation?
Your life expressed in an essay, or in one model photograph?
Wouldn’t any form be better than this sudden flash?
Your whole existence going off in your face
in an eyebrow-singeing explosion of biography—
nothing like the three large volumes you envisioned.

Survivors would have us believe in a brilliance
here, some bolt of truth forking across the water,
an ultimate Light before all the lights go out,
dawning on you with all its megalithic tonnage.
But if something does flash before your eyes
as you go under, it will probably be a fish,

a quick blur of curved silver darting away,
having nothing to do with your life or your death.
The tide will take you, or the lake will accept it all
as you sink toward the weedy disarray of the bottom,
leaving behind what you have already forgotten,
the surface, now overrun with the high travel of clouds.

“BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH” BY EMILY DICKINSON

Written during the 1860s, this poem is meditative in nature. Fans of Dickinson admire her voice and her unorthodox style, with liberal use of dashes and unconventional capitalization. (127 words)

Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me –

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess – in the Ring –

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –

We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –

The Dews drew quivering and Chill –

For only Gossamer, my Gown –

My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed

A Swelling of the Ground –

The Roof was scarcely visible –

The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – ’tis Centuries – and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses’ Heads

Were toward Eternity –

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The first artifact is the poem “The Art of Drowning,” published in 1995 and written by Billy Collins, a US Poet Laureate between 2001-2003. The cultural setting of the poem is America, and it highlights what it means to have one’s life flash before their eyes. The second artifact is Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” written during the 1860s and……………………

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