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Sample AP Writing Assignment

In an interview in Poets and Writers, Li-Young Lee said, "I feel that a living father is a kind of compass for a child -- even a father who has died." Compare and contrast the ways in which the speaker depicts his father as "a kind of compass " in each of the following poems.

  "A Story " by Li-Young Lee
  "Those Winter Sundays " by Robert Hayden



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