Below you will find five poems. Please identify the form of each using your "Kinds of Poetry According to Form" worksheet. You may use your worksheet.

The definition of terza rima is a series of tercets with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc etc...

From Second Satire
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-42)
My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,
They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse,
That for because their livelihood was but so thin
Would needs go seek her townish sister’s house.
She thought herself endured to much pain:
The stormy blasts her cave so sore did souse...

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Autumn Love
author not knownCome take my hand my autumn angel
No longer summers colours bright
Lush green hues are no longer visible
And days share equal time with night.
Cool mornings and a paler sky sight
Leave a legacy the colours of red and gold.
So thankful crops are gathered, and sold,
This time is ours in our private nest
Away from cooler seas that chill the air
It is now we find that time alone is best
With evenings by a fire in a comfy chair
Now that time is best to show we care
And future lives stretching out forever
That we earned through our endeavor

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From Marriage
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
This institution,
perhaps one should say enterprise
out of respect for which
one says one need not change one’s mind
about a thing one has believed in,
requiring public promises
of one’s intention
to fulfill a private obligation:
I wonder what Adam and Eve
think of it by this time,
this fire-gilt steel
alive with goldenness;
how bright it shows—

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From Visions
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
Being one day at my window all alone,
So manie strange things happened me to see,
As much as it grieveth me to thinke thereon.
At my right hand a hynde appear’d to mee,
So faire as mote the greatest god delite;
Two eager dogs did her pursue in chace.
Of which the one was blacke, the other white:
With deadly force so in their cruell race
They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast,
That at the last, and in short time, I spide,
Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,
Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.
Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie
Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire.

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Response to "I Died for Beauty"

Please read "I Died for Beauty" by Emily Dickinson - located in your packet. Use as reference "Literary Analysis - Poetry" worksheet, Section "Structure" and "Thinking about Structure on Paper".

First, identify all structural elements: rhyme scheme, stanzas, meter, etc...

Next, blog an answer to the following prompt: How does Dickinson employ structure to help establish meaning?

 

Template

If you prefer, you may go to the following website and type in the information then print.

www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizer/printables/48390.html

Reading Log/Dialectical Journal

Instructions for Reading Log:

1.You will create two columns on a sheet of paper: one labeled "Quotes" and one labeled "Responses".

2.Next, you will need to find and quote two passages that you find interesting, don't understand, comedic, supports the theme, wish to discuss, etc...  Basically, passages that stand out to you.

3.Quote the passage in the left column citing Act, Scene, and Line numbers.  Write your questions, observations, or responses in the right column. (You only need one response per quote.)

4.The second half of the journal requires that you identify two passages that contain a literary element or sound device.

5.Quote the passage in the left column citing Act, Scene, and Line numbers.  Identify and explain the author's usage of the element.  For example, if you locate a metaphor, explain what is being compared and why the author would use a metaphor at this point in the drama.

**A passage may be as short as one line.

Timed Writing

You have 40 minutes in which to complete the following timed essay.  Please begin your time with your first reading of the prompt.

The following open ended question was taken from the 2010 AP Literature and Composition Exam.

BEGIN TIME - 40 minutes

"In the following soliloquy from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part II, King Henry laments his inability to sleep.  In a well-organized essay, briefly summarize the King's thoughts and analyze how the diction, imagery, and syntax help to convey his state of mind."

How many thousand of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep!  O sleep!  O gentle sleep!
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down,
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?                   (5)
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,
And hush'd with buzzing in night-flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,                        (10)
And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast                (15)
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge,
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them   (20)
With deaf'ning clamour in the slippery clouds,
That with the hurly death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude
And in the calmest and most stillest night,              (25)
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a King? Then, happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
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huts
not impartial

Words to Know Week 6

epitome
pragmatic
laconic
languid

Words to Know Week 5

myopic
conundrum
paradoxical
oblivious