February Break Homework

When we return, we will be starting our Modern Poetry unit.  For homework, read these two essays.  For each essay, write a half-page response that answers the following questions:

What literary elements does the author use to analyze the poem?  Which of these seem new or unique to modern poetry?  Explain.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/248396

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/182292

Choose three sentences you admire from each essay.  Copy them down and underline the evidence and circle the analysis.  What types of language and sentence structures are these authors combining evidence and analysis?

Then, write your own essay on the poem "Facing It."  How does the poet use literary elements to describe his experience of visiting the monument?

Read20 Questions - 2/10/15

Key Details

1.     Let’s start with the obvious: what is a sonnet and how do you know you’re looking at one?

2.     According to Foster, what are some advantages and disadvantages of this form? (List at least four total).

Vocabulary

1.      Rossetti uses an allusion.  Define allusion and explain how Rossetti uses it.

2.     What’s some important poetry vocabulary used here?  Choose two words and note the definitions.

Connections and Inferences

1.      Read Foster’s analysis of Rossetti’s poem carefully.  What are three literary elements that are explicitly or implicitly used in his analysis?  Explain.  

Point and Purpose  

1.      What questions about poetry did you think of while reading this chapter? (List at least one).

HW Essay - Due Monday, Feb 9

Sometimes the ending of a novel or play changes our understanding of the entire story.  Write an analytical essay in which you explain how the final scene in Hamlet either extends or somehow challenges a major theme from the story so far.  Include a complex claim and use a variety or evidence and literary elements to develop your analysis.