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Topic:  “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo Description: Length and Format: minimum 800 words; 12-Font, Double-Spaced Your task is to generate a topic and to produce an essay on any poem we have discussed. The essay must consist of textual analysis and should not merely be a summary of the plot. You must have a coherent thesis, topic sentences for each body paragraph, and a title. A focus on literary language, devices and details is part of the assignment. Your analysis must blend citations with interpretive descriptions. Because the essay is an interpretation—and not a summary or “book report”—your thesis must make a particular point with which a reader could potentially disagree and for which you will use textual evidence as support using the MLA format for in-text citations. Your thesis should not be the statement of a fact, but an interpretive claim that it is the job of the essay to support. A sample thesis:”By keeping Iago’s underlying intention a mystery, Shakespear