The Beast Cometh...

Your poetry exam, affectionately nicknamed the Beast, is on Tuesday, November 3rd. Please use this weekend to study your terms on the poetry placemat and in in your notes. Your test will consist of the fill in the blank questions followed by an in-class essay. Sample questions are available below:

_______________ The representation of sense experiences through language.


_______________ A metrical line containing five feet


_______________ The repetition at close interval of the vowel sounds of accented syllable or important words.

_________________ A period of English literature producing poems that often presented an argument and elaborate comparisons.

_______________ The poet’s choice of words in a poem





Cruel and sudden, hast thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?


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(Time period of poem above?)

Contemporary Prospectus Revision

I am modifying the assignment for the contemporary prospectus on "The Century Quilt". Please feel free to read the poem and mark the text, but wait until receiving information in class on Wednesday before progressing any farther.

Due Thursday, and Monday

We will be completing three more poetry prospectuses through Turnitin with the only difference being that you will need to choose your poems from specified time periods, and submit them separately. The first of these will be due on Thursday, and the second due on Monday. Below you will find information outlining these expectations. Numbers in parenthesis indicate the section of your book containing poems from this time period.

Step 1: Review your comments on prospectus set 1 on Turnitin. I made comments so that you will be able to apply them to your next prospectuses.

Due Thursday 10/22: Renaissance prospectus (583-606)

Due Monday 10/26: Romantic prospectus (617-652)

Due Thursday 10/29: Contemporary prospectus (to be determined)

FYI: Your poetry exam is set for November 3rd! There really IS an end to the poetry unit!

Due Monday and Tuesday

On Monday, you will be completing your first assessed in-class poetry essay. Make sure you have reviewed your returned essays and comments and know what you will want to focus on as areas for improvement.


For Tuesday, please do a line-by-line (or thought for though) "translation" of the poem "Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope on page 609 in your text book. This assignment will be turned in for points, so make sure it is on a separate sheet of paper and not just in your notes. You will most likely need to look up definitions for words you don't know and allusions that you are not familiar with. At the bottom of your paper, please include a list of words and their definitions that you looked up.

Due Thursday

Please do a dual turn in of your poetry essay. Submit an electronic copy through Turnitin, and hand in a paper copy to be graded. THE PAPER COPY WILL DETERMINE IF THE PAPER IS CONSIDERED ON TIME, so make sure you have a back up in case your printer decides to hate on you.

Due Monday

Please complete your reading on Rhythm and Meter (480-492). We will be having a quiz on Monday over the specific terms associated with a study of Rhythm and Meter. Many of these terms will come from the notes we took in class. HOWEVER, there are several terms that are only presented to you in your reading. If you encounter a technical term associated with Rhythm and Meter while during your reading, learn it! Again, you will need to use whatever study technique works for you to learn all of these terms.

Also, you should really be making progress on your essay this weekend. Do not save it for Wednesday night.

For Thursday

Please read or review the information on quotation incorporation as you begin working on your paper. Please note that the styles of incorporation at the bottom of the page are considered more mature sounding than those on the top. Therefore, you should make it a goal to become comfortable with those methods.

You should also be progressing on your poetry essay. Make it a MINIMUM goal to have thought about the poem, developed an initial thesis, and begun gathering your quotations for evidence by Thursday. You will want to know what you are having troubles with before this weekend so you can ask me questions.