Weekend Assignment Info

This weekend you should be making progress on your rough draft of your poetry paper. If you still have not completed reading part 2 of the Manifesto, do NOT start on your paper until you have carefully read this document.

Reading Due Tuesday:

Syntax: 465-472 (Black Book: 516-523)

1st Essay Poem

Please do your best to finish part 2 of the Manifesto for Friday along with your diction reading.


Here is the poem for your first poetry paper (remember, do not consult any resources online or otherwise) but begin thinking about possible interpretations/devices to analyze. Due date, TBD, but rough draft work day will be next Wednesday.

when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
and the sun strikes to gain a living wage-
when thorns regard their roses with alarm
and rainbows are insured against old age

when every thrush may sing no new moon in
if all screech-owls have not okayed his voice
-and any wave signs on the dotted line
or else an ocean is compelled to close

when the oak begs permission of the birch
to make an acorn-valleys accuse their
mountains of having altitude-and march
denounces april as a saboteur

then we'll believe in that incredible
unanimal mankind(and not until)

e e cummings

Reading Due Friday:

Diction (436-444), Voice (427-436)

Reading Due Friday/Monday:

Manifesto Part 2

Prospectus Assignment Info:

Each poem prospectus will consist of the following:

- “Device/Effect T-chart” of a minimum of three different poetry devices, text support for these devices, and their effects the poem. Select a poem from the anthology that we have not thoroughly discussed in class.

- Thesis statement

- Paragraph (approximately 1/2 page). This paragraph will either be an introduction to a hypothetical paper on the selected poem ( background ideas, thesis, poa) or a body paragraph (topic sentence with 3 examples, where, what, how, why, model. )

For the Poetry Prospectus 1-4 Assignment, two of your poems will have an introduction as their paragraphs, and two will have a support paragraph.)

The Prospectus 1-4 assignment is not likely to be due until the second week in October, so please do not panic; you have plenty of time!

Assignments

Read Part 1 of the "Manifesto" for Wednesday.

You should also make sure you have completed your reading of the "Happy Synergy of Interpretation of Analysis".