If you were part of a group that could decide on a new canon of literature, which of the following works of literature that we have studied would you include and why? What would be your argument in favor of each piece? Choose three pieces of literature to defend.
Dubus’s “Killings”
Ellison’s “Battle Royal”
Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”
O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
O’Connor’s “Good Country People”
Gilb’s “Love in L.A.”
Gilb’s Uncle Rock”
Joyce’s “The Dead”
Collins’s “Introduction to Poetry”
Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Dickinson’s poems – Select specific poems
Alvarez’s poems — Select specific poems
McKay’s poems – Select specific poems
Johnson’s poems – Select specific poems
Hughes’s poems – Select specific poems
Cullen’s poems – Select specific poems
Stevens’ “Sunday Morning”
Mullen’s “Dim Lady”
Shakespeare’s sonnet “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”
Soto’s “Mexicans Begin Jogging”