"When I Was One and Twenty," by A.E. Housman

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Due Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 6:00 P.M.

Read "When I Was One and Twenty," by A.E. Housman (page 148).

Write a first response to the poem. You may free-write a response, or use some or al of the following prompts:

* How did you relate to the narrator?

* How do you feel about the narrator's understanding of love?

Provide specific textual details and quotations from the poem to justify and/or explain your response to "When I Was One and Twenty."

Remember, a first response is not a summary -- use 2-3 quotations from the poem and discuss how it affected you.

First Response Guidelines:

* 8.5x11-inch paper

* 1-inch margins

* typed, double-spaced, Cambria 12 font

* minimum three-quarter (3/4) page; maximum one (1) page

Upper left-hand corner of the paper, single spaced:

FIRST AND LAST NAME

February 18, 2010

Professor Melinda Roberts

Comp & Lit II: Spring 2010

Centered Title (all caps and bolded):

RESPONSE PAPER: "WHEN I WAS ONE AND TWENTY"