Due 11/2

Be prepared to discuss Dillard's "Living Like Weasels" in regards to purpose (interpretation) and devices. Note the title of the text above is linked in case you need it. If you use the link, consider priting out a copy so you can mark the text as we discuss it in class.

Due 11/1

Be prepared to discuss Swift's use of rhetorical devices in A Modest Proposal. There is should be a copy in your book, but I provided the link just in case.

Also, here is a link to the rhetoric packet we discussed today in class. The spacing is a bit crazy, but hopefully you can deal with it.

Readings!

Modernism Readings:

Ulysses 649
Channel Firing 672
Windhover 675
To an Athlete 677
Leda and the Swan 684
Sailing to Byzantium 685
Fire and Ice 695
Acquainted with the Night 699
Danse Russe 707
Ars Poetica 729
Ars Poetica 730
Anyone live in a… 733

Romanticism Readings:

608 Description of Morning
609 Essay on Man
614 Clod and Pebble
619 Lines
624 She Walks…
626 Ode to the West Wind
628 When I have fears…
632 Grecian Urn

The Poetry Prospectus Strikes Back! Due 10/21

You will have three additional poetry prospectuses due on Friday, October 21st. Follow the same format for these as for your first set, although all three paragraphs this time must be body paragraphs.

New information: Each of your poems should come from a different literary movement, choosing from among those we have discussed in class.

(And don't worry; there is no "Return of the Poetry Prospectus" so this is your last set!)

Please read and think about the following poems for next time:

Renaissance/Metaphysical Readings:

584- "One Day I wrote" (Spenser)
589- "Since there's no hope" (Drayton)
590- "Let me not...“ (Shakespeare)
590- "My Mistress' eyes" (Shakespeare)
593-"The Canonization" (Donne)
595- "The Flea" (Donne)
594- "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (Donne)
599- "To the Virgins" (Herrick)
601- "Easter Wings" (Herbert)
602- "When I consider" (Milton)
604- "To his Coy..." (Marvell)

Due Thursday-

Remember you have a rhythm and meter quiz today that covers information presented in class as well as the chapter in your book on rhythm and meter.

For Friday, you will need to have read the section on sound devices. Red book (472-480). Black book: (523-531).

I also recommend that you are done with two prospectuses before the weekend.

Here is Coleridge being silly:

Trochee trips from long to short;
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot yet ill able
Ever to come up with Dactylic trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long-
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapests throng.

Prospectus Due Date!

Please make sure that you are making progress on your prospectus assignment. Your due date will be October 7th! You should have at least one done by this point.