ption I: Choose one of the topics given below and follow the instructions for completing the assignment.1. Read some of the prose from Lincolns Specimen Days. Compare/contrast his poetry with his prose.2. How reliable are the narrators in Poes, Irvings, and Melvilles works (those assigned for this class only)? What do they have in common, and how does their reliability affect the works?3. Read the excerpt from William Gilmore Simms preface to The Yemassee. In this selection, he is writing about his novel; however, on a broader level, he is defining Romance in a more specific manner than we have done so this semester. Find those defining factors of Romance in his prefacefor example, he says [i]t approximates the poem . . . and hurries [individuals] rapidly through crowding and exacting events, in a narrow space of time (1211)and use those factors to show how one of Poes short stories fits Simms definition of Romance. Use only one of Poes stories that appears within your text.4. Compare the depiction of Indians in earlier works by Mary Rowlandson, William Bradford, John Smith and others with how the Indians present themselves in the speeches and tales. How do you account for the different perspectives (beyond the obvious reasons)?5. Compare/contrast Franny Ferns The Working Girls of New York with Rebecca Harding Daviss Life in the Iron-Mills.6. What qualities must a Puritan woman have to survive? How do their WRITINGS reflect those particular qualities? Use Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, and the seemingly un-Puritan Sarah Knight Kemble to discuss these qualities.Note: This is NOT a discussion of their personal lives. You are to show how their writing reflects the qualities of the Puritan woman, the role of the Puritan woman, etc. NO BIOGRAPHY is to be included.