I Monday 29 January: Lyric vs. Narrative poetry; receive Sound and Sense; choose poem for explication
Tuesday 30 January: Sonnets: "That time of year" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; effects of form Wednesday 31 January: Gestural structure; speaker and occasion Thursday 1 February: image, symbol, metaphor; Sound tropes (handout to help) Friday 2 February: No school; half day Monday 5 February: No school; Headmaster's Holiday Tuesday 6 February: Cold poem to review ideas, sample explication; use Perrine as a reference to make sure ideas are defensible; review of academic integrity principles, especially for this paper Wednesday 7 February: Other devices: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox Thursday 8 February: Draft of explication due by midnight, uploaded as a PDF; workday in class Friday 9 February: Diction: Denotation and connotation Monday 12 February: Effects of line Tuesday 13 February: No class; Carnevale Assembly Wednesday 14 February: Poem presentations (5 min. each, start on time) Thursday 15 February: Poem presentations (5 min. each, start on time) Friday 16 February: No class; half day Monday 19 February: No school; Presidents' Day Tuesday 20 February: Introduction to Purgatorio; books assigned for presentation; Final draft of explication due by midnight, uploaded as a PDF Wednesday 21 February: Canto I in class Thursday 22 February: Cantos II and III Friday 23 February: Cantos IV and V Monday 26 February: No homework is due, by headmaster decree Tuesday 27 February: Cantos VI and VII Wednesday 28 February: Canto VIII Comments are closed.
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