Charlotte Perkins Gilman – “The Yellow Wall-Paper” In your r…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman – “The Yellow Wall-Paper” In your response of the question below, be sure to attend to questions 1, 2a, and 2b and use textual evidence from “The Yellow Wallpaper”. (1) How does Gilman’s story critique the treatment of women’s mental health and autonomy during the late 19th century, and (2) how can the story serve as a lens through which to examine how women’s health and agency are still contested in (2a) modern medical and (2b) social systems?

Walt Whitman – “Song of Myself” and “O Captain! My Captain!”…

Walt Whitman – “Song of Myself” and “O Captain! My Captain!” In your response of the question below, be sure to attend to questions 1, 2a, 2b, and 2c and use textual evidence from “Song of Myself” and “O Captain! My Captain”. How do Whitman’s themes of individualism, democracy, and national identity in “Song of Myself” and the mourning in “O Captain! My Captain!” (1) reflect the tensions of the Civil War era, and (2) in what ways can these poems inform our understanding of (2a) leadership, (2b) loss, and (2c) unity in modern America?