Since you are working on your blogs and your proposals (or at least mindful that the blog is due on Thursday and the proposal is due on Saturday), we will spend our class time reviewing poetry in advance of your eventual test and poetry prompt.
First, I threw our poetry terms cards on the floor and watched you match terms and definitions together. Then, we reviewed meter, feet, stanza, rhymes, and poetry types -- all of which are in your poetry packet. I highly recommend you read the suggested poems for each type to practice your identification of poetry. Last, Marvell and his seducing persona are back: "To His Coy Mistress," our Carpe Diem poem of the day. More than the argument of the woo, the poem has structure: rhyme scheme, iambic tetrameter, alliteration, and so forth.
Second hour, we need to discuss the meter of "To His Coy Mistress" and the last stanza, so make sure you have something to contribute tomorrow. Fourth hour, we will start with our next Carpe Diem poem.
Bring your lit books back - you will need them in class tomorrow.
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