The lame-ass post of a burned-out lit student

I have *one more paper* to write for this semester. All my final exams are taken; all of my other papers are in. The paper I need to write is for Survey of British Literature Part One: Medieval Anglo-Saxon Works through Seventeenth Century Metaphysical Poets. The paper only has to be six freaking pages, *double-spaced*, for goodness' sake, and I am drawing a complete blank. I don't even have to prove my thesis, just show thoughtful development. It's not even a research paper--just a close reading of a piece or pieces we've covered. I can't use anything but the materials we've read.

( list of what we've read (not actually that long) )

All I need is a freaking thesis. It doesn't have to be complex; it just needs to be thesis-like. The example the professor gave was "The role of women as portrayed in "The Wife's Lament (Exeter Elegy) and "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" differs greatly due to the genre of these works as well as each woman's social status."

My first two close readings were "The Wife's Lament as compared to the other Exeter Elegies; internal vs. external journeying", and "The role of the natural world in Wyatt and how it differs from Surrey's use of it". Easy-peasy, made sense, whipped them off in no time.

IT'S THAT STRAIGHTFORWARD. And I can't think of a fucking thing.

Help? Seriously. Any ideas at all might spark something.