due Friday 11/20

1. Do "row 3" (full-page version) of your chart about MSND.

Over vacation: "row 4."

due Thursday 11/19

1. , Write in a comment on this blog post, a simile for "Poetry," 792, "Sestina," 793, and "Ars Poetica" (794); then write a simile for the way one of these poems (or ["Do not go gentle into that good night"]) SOUNDS.

2. Have two "rows" (pages, really) of your "chart" on MSND. Your starting questions are, how does the language of each character differ from the language of the other characters? Is there anything notable that is common to the language of the different characters?

due Wednesday 11/18

1. MSND 4.2 and 5.1.1-107. No reading journal necessary.

2. Write a discussion in response to one of the following prompts, each concerning the poem "Poetry" on p. 792. If you prefer, you may combine two or more of the prompts. Email your discussion to me, or hand it in in person.

a. This poem is included in a section called "stanza forms." How would you describe the stanzas in this poem? How are they typical stanzas, or atypical stanzas? Do the stanzas reflect the content in any way?

b. The poem sounds like a lecture on poetry. Setting the stanza form aside, is it anything more than a lecture, or to put it another way, is there anything that makes it an unusual lecture?

c. What does the spekaer like and appreciate? Do these things have anything in common?

due Tuesday 11/17

1. Read the rest of MSND 3.2 (3.2.82-389) and do a reading journal about it.

2. Read "Ars Poetica," on p. 794 and email a discussion about it, answering one of the following prompts:

a. Describe the importance of references to the senses (i.e. images) in this poem.

b. On the one hand, the senses play an important role in this poem; on the other, the poem has parts that don't refer to the senses, like "A poem should be equal to: not true." How might the sense-infused parts and the parts that are not sense infused be related to each other?

If this homework assignment is taking you too long, stop reading 3.2 of MSND before the end of the scene and do a reading journal based on what you've read up until then.

due Monday 11/16

Read to the end of 2.2 in MSND, and do four-part journal.

Read "Sestina," p. 793, and discuss it in an email that you send to me in the usual way. In your discussion, please respond to one OR both of these prompts:

a) First thinking about the different images that arise, can you detect a pattern of imagery/ If so, discuss.

b) Is the poem more cozy and warm, or more anxious? Discuss.

1. Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.188 to end of scene and 2.2.1-34; reading journal.

2. An example of the fairy, Puck, Titania, and Oberon at their most poetic, an a few words to distinguish how in each case the characters' way of being poetic is different from the others' way of being poetic. (The exercise we started to do in class.)

due Thursday 11/12

1. Casablanca analysis, cont.

2. Read 1.3.1-187; no journal necessary tonight.