Write a brief essay (500 word minimum) about a theme that you discovered in the works of one of the poets you read in this section. Support
M2 Essay: Poetry Response Essay
Omar Khayyam’s Perception of Religion
Write a brief essay (500 word minimum) about a theme that you discovered in the works of one of the poets you read in this section. Support your idea with examples from the text. To further support and discuss your idea, search the Herkimer College Library Databases for other scholarly articles about the poet/poems you are writing about. Your essay must be submitted as either a Word Document or a Google Doc and meet the following parameters: Times New Roman font, size 12; one inch margins; paragraphs aligned left and indented. If you use another source to support your idea (website, article, documentary etc) then you must include an MLA style citation for that work.Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of whom tells the Story of all Three. This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble Successor of Mahmud the Great, and founded that Seljukian Dynasty which finally roused Europe into the Crusades. This Nizam ul Mulk, in his Wasiyat—or Testament—which he wrote and left as a Memorial for future Statesmen—relates the following, as quoted in the Calcutta Review, No. 59, from Mirkhond’s History of the Assassins.
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