• What makes us who we are?

• Why should we read about characters from other places and other times?

• What can we learn about ourselves from others?

• What is necessary to create a bond between people?

• What is our responsibility to others?

• When, if ever, should we put our own needs above the needs of others?

• Why is human connection important?

• Is it important to be remembered?

• What role does faith play in our humanity?

POETRY:

• Arnold, Matthew - "Dover Beach"

• Auden, W. H. - "Musée des Beaux Arts"

• Byron, Lord - "She Walks in Beauty" 

• Donne, John - "Meditation 17"

• Donne, John - "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

• Gray, Thomas - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

• Heaney, Seamus - "Digging"

• Herrick, Robert - "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" 

• Keats, John - "Bright Star"

• Keats, John - "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

• Shakespeare - Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage...")

• Tennyson - "Ulysses"

• Thomas, Dylan - "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"