After reviewing vocabulary for our next quiz (and we will take a moratorium on vocabulary next week to focus on Shakespeare and multiple choice passages), we resumed the poetry packet by focusing on the ode and the elegy. Since the ode, usually an apostrophe to an object or animal in accordance with the Romantic realm, elevates the given subject and is evident in Grecian Urns, Nightingales, and other poems of note, the blog will and should move onto the elegy. Ah, the elegy, a poem of mourning emphasizing the loss of superior soul exemplified by Shelley's "Adonais" and Whitman's "O Captain My Captain." On the 200th anniversary of my Keatsy's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," we spent time breaking apart the meter, imagery, and significance of his loss in poetry. (Hey, it doesn't hurt that he is compared to Adonis. See previously posted link for evidence.)
Second hour made it through the majority of Porphyria's hair-tingling death scene. Sorry, I had to phrase it that way. We will finish up talking the poem and breaking down all its components tomorrow.
Fourth hour, we have another elegy example tomorrow before dramatic monologues and sonnets.
COMPLETE THE PACKET QUESTIONS! The awkward silence occurring after I ask for responses to a question in the packet should not be happening.
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