"While I debated what to do"

I still have the image of Alex and Noah in a chair reenacting "Porphyria's Lover," so figuring out a title for this post has become challenging.

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We completed vocab quiz 5. If absent, you will need to make up the quiz before or after school next week.

We finished up the questions for "Porphyria's Lover," looked at 3 sonnet forms (Petrarchan, Shakespearian, and Spenserian). That pesky Spenser starts off with the Shakespearian abab, but then he throws us a change with the next quatrain of bcbc followed by quatrain cdcd and couplet ee. Last, we looked at the villanelle via Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." If you have been absent and not able to participate in our poetry packet analysis (which covers Tuesday-Thursday), you will need to show my your packet with all the questions answered. Make sure you real all the information -- caesura and all.

For homework, you are to complete the Shakespeare Crossword puzzle, the three pages dealing with Shakespeare's language (the translations, reordering of sentences, analyzing sentences, and writing famous movie quotes into Shakespearian syntax), and break down Sonnet 18 for iambic pentameter and rhyme scheme.

Shakespeare sonnets, multiple choice, and, just maybe, psychoanalytical criticism next week. We are closer to King Lear!

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We also completed vocab quiz 5. If absent, you will need to make up the quiz before or after school next week. We then read "O Captain My Captain" and analyzed the elegy for its content and caesura! Unfortunately for absentees, you missed the Alex and Noah reenactment of "Porphyria's Lover." I don't think any of us will forget the theatrical stylings of our actors today! Meanwhile, we spent the rest of the time discussing the poem and its features.

For homework, you are to complete the Shakespeare Crossword puzzle and the three pages dealing with Shakespeare's language (translations, reordering of sentences, analyzing sentences, and writing famous movie quotes into Shakespearian syntax).

We will delve into the three sonnet structures next week, villanelles, Shakespeare, and multiple choice next week!