Due Thurs/Fri and Beyond!

Slides from class:

Essay info
Poem outline assignment (due Thurs/Fri)






Here is the prompt for your take home poetry essay. I may make a few changes to it, but I wanted to get it up as soon as possible so you can think about it.

Homework due Monday 9/25

Monday reading due: Voice/Speaker/Tone (427-436)
Tuesday reading due: Symbolism (457-464)

Syntax slides are available here.

Due Thursday/Friday 9/21/22

Please review your notes and resources on interpretations. We will have an interpretation assessment for the first part of class.

Please complete your reading on syntax (465-472)

Slide shows from class are available here:

Diction
Imagery
Analytical Units

Homework Due Monday and Tuesday (Wednesday)

Due Monday:

Please complete the Interpretation practice sheet for "Storm Warnings" and "Collection Day" and bring completed to class on Monday. This should be available in the previous post as the "document to bring to class but don't do anything with it."


Due Tuesday (Wednesday):

Read the sections in your book on Imagery (444-451) and Diction (436-444). Make sure that you are reading and thinking about the devices in each poem as well as how they help to develop a complex interpretation.

Due 9/14 (A) 9/15 (B)

You have three responsibilities for next class. They are:

Please print and bring this document, but do not do anything with it other then bring it to class.

Secondly please read this 4 page document, The Happy Synergy of Interpretation and Analysis

Lastly, please read your book's section on figurative language (451-457). As you do your reading, make sure to read the poems that are in that section (believe it or not some people skip them) and practice developing complex interpretation ideas for them in your head. There should be a lot of thinking involved.

Due 9/12(A) or 9/13 (B)

Please read and complete the poetry "Mad Libs" assignment available here.

Homework due 9/7 (A), 9/8 (B)

Homework:

Write an analysis of the following poem. I know this probably seems impossible to you, which is okay because this is a pretest and worth completion points!

In your analysis, you may wish to consider such things as structure, diction, figurative language, and imagery. DO NOT CONSULT ONLINE RESOURCES!

This assignment is graded on completion, so please don't worry and just show me what you can do. This entire assignment (thinking and writing) should take 40 minutes. Set a timer, and stop where you are when that time has elapsed, even if it is in the middle of a sentence. I really just want to see what you can do in 40 minutes.

Design

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all*, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.

* heal-all: a flower that is normally blue

Robert Frost