REMEMBER: Paper #1 is due by 5pm on Monday. We DO have class on Monday, but we'll be discussing Shakespeare's theater and language. Below is the handout I gave out in class on Friday which might help you incorporate quotations into your paper.
CITING QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE PAPERS
“And now he won’t
be long for this world.
He has done his
worst but the wound will end him.
He is hasped and
hooped and hirpling with pain,
Limping and looped
in it. Like a man outlawed
For wickedness, he
must await
The mighty judgment of God in majesty” (65).
QUOTATION SANDWICH : Introduction + Quote + Response
Writing about
Grendel’s death-wound, the Beowulf poet writes that “He is hasped and hooped
and hirpling with pain,/Limping and looped in it. Like a man outlawed/For
wickedness, he must await/The mighty judgment of God in majesty” (65).
OR
In Heaney’s
translation, Grendel is described as “hasped and hooped and hirplign with
pain,/Limping and looped in it. Like a man outlawed/For wickedness” (65).
THEN: In Heaney’s
translation, Grendel is described as “hasped and hooped and hirplign with
pain,/Limping and looped in it. Like a man outlawed/For wickedness” (65). This is an important passage, since instead
of dispatching the monster without comment as in a fairy tale, we see and feel
Grendel’s torment as if he were a human being. He is described as bound in
pain, “limping” away in agony, and trying to cleave his way out of the “loops.”
The poet further captures his humanity through the idea of being “outlawed,” a
man without a home, an exile from his home, country, and even life itself. It
is a devastatingly desolate statement, and one that makes us instinctively
sympathetic toward Grendel.
WORKS CITED PAGE (for more examples, check the Purdue OWL page:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl
Author + title +
(translator) + publication information + date
Anonymous. Beowulf. Translated by Seamus Heaney.
New York: W.W. Norton
and Company, 2000.
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