Poetry

1. Poetry • How do you analyze poetry? • What is important to you? (what are you looking for?) • Do you have to like it for you to think the poem is good? • What makes it timeless?

2. In similar fashion to your letter assignment which is due Friday, Write a letter of rejection to one of the poets we have covered in class for a specific poem that we have read. The letter is to include your rationale for your decision. -Be specific in referencing your poem (make reference to specific lines) -How you think others will feel about the poem -How you feel about the poem You simply cannot say “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is too long Discuss the poem’s meaning and its ability to be appreciated One and one half hand written sides, due at the end of class

3. Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Read the poem quietly • Write a one page summary to be handed in at end of class. • Who is narrator? • Audience? • What is the setting? • What are the course of events (COE)?

4. Cavalier Poets • Robert Herrick “To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time” • Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”

5. What you need to know for class • Identify poems by specific line(s) • Be able to identify the meanings of (interpret) the poems we cover in class • Understand the symbols/metaphors used • Memorize a poem for Poetry Out loud • Familiarity with Romantic Poetry

6. Romantic Poets • William Wordsworth “The World Is Too Much With Us” “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” • Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Kubla Khan” “Rime Of The Ancient Mariner” • Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty” “When We Two Parted” • Percy Shelley • “Ozymandias”

7. The Romantic Poets • The best known Romantic poets  were Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats  and their poetry was dependent on various features peculiar to their time: a reaction against previous literary styles, arguments with eighteenth century and earlier philosophers, the decline in formal Anglican worship and the rise of dissenting religious sects, and the rapid and unprecedented industrialization of Britain and consequent changes in its county-side. Above all, however, it was the impact of the French Revolution which gave the period its most distinctive and urgent concerns. Following the Revolution itself, which began in 1789, Britain was at war with France on continental Europe for nearly twenty years while massive repression of political dissent was implemented at home. Against this background much of the major writing of the period, associated with the term Romantic, takes place between 1789 (when the French Revolution began) and 1824 (the death of Byron) and can be seen as a response to changing political and social conditions in one respect or another.

8. Poetry Letter Assignment Due Friday 11/12 Put yourself in the role of a publishing house editor. You have been asked to pick one poem from the list of poems below to publish- William Wordsworth “The World Is Too Much With Us” “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Kubla Khan” “Rime of The Ancient Mariner” Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty” “When We Two Parted” Percy Shelley “Ozymandias” Your assignment is to write a letter of acceptance to the poet of your choice discussing why you chose the poem you did. You must address: -why you liked the poem -what makes you think others will like it -what you think the poem really means • The letter is to be typed, one full page or more and is due Friday Nov. 12