During most of the first session, we reviewed my comments to Nina's final essays on Macbeth. We examined how to better incorporate quotes by explaining or commenting upon them in the context of the essay's thesis rather than just inserting them. We further looked at techniques to improve cohesion , to improve word choice, to correct run-on sentences, and to obviate the use of the passive tense. During our second session , we parsed and analyzed two difficult poems, "Thanatopsis" and "Ode to a Nightingale." Regarding "Thantopsis" we first identified the poetic devices of personification of Nature and the multiple metaphors referring to death or the earth. I then addressed the poem's tone and almost welcoming attitude toward death in final stanza. Nina then identified the poet's reasons for his conclusion. Keat's "Nightingale" is an iconic Romantic poem that addresses life, death ,and the use of art and poetry as a means to achieve escape from life's pain and sorrow. We discussed the nightingale's song as a symbol of the artistic imagination or fancy . I further addressed the now famous line "tender is the night" as F.Scott Fitzgerald used this line as a book title. We began to focus on the poet's view of life and view of death so that we can contrast this view with the poet's view in "Thanantopsis" and Donne's view of death in his sonnet"Death Be Not Proud." We explored the differences between Donne and the other poet's views as Donne's is founded in religious doctrine or a belief in an eternal afterlife.