Choose an art piece that means something to you. Make a claim about what the overall composition of your art piece reveals about its subject, and back that claim up with textual details.

Assignment Question

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For this essay, you’ll be doing a close reading of an art piece of your choosing. Using “The Method,” address what is implicit in the text by identifying important repetitions, relevant strands, binary oppositions, and anomalies. Do not summarize the text, or simply describe what is happening at the surface level. Use the details within to interpret meaning that is not stated outright.

In other words, make a claim about what the overall composition of your art piece reveals about its subject, and back that claim up with textual details. As with the rest of the assignments in this class, you get to choose which art piece you’d like to write about: some possible options might be a poem, a short story, a clip from a film, a painting, or a photograph.

Choose an art piece that means something to you, so your analytical engagement with it feels exciting. Steer clear of heavily abstract art for this assignment; these will be more difficult to draw meaning from.

Talk about rhyme, rhythm, and more about the music video itself.