Jason has offered a weak thesis for his literary analysis. Which of the following could replace sentence 2 and provide a more effective thesis for this paper?
• Wordsworth was a poet from nineteenth-century England, and I am a student from twenty-first century America, so if I can connect with his message then so can you.
• Sometimes, though, a poem that resonates with one reader will fail to strike a chord with others, and it is this emotional evolution through generations that makes it so difficult for ancient poetry to connect with later generations.
# Even though the poem was written a long time ago in a form born even longer ago, the message of Wordsworth's
poem is as relevant to today's society as it was to the poet's own.
• If you haven't read the poem before, this analysis will take you through it and show you how the speaker relates ideas that will last as long as humans roam the planet.