In all classes today, we wrapped up Donne's sonnets and all the forced rhymes, the motifs, the color symbolism, the alliteration, the progressing acceptance of his feelings regarding the death of his wife and his eventual end. Afterwards, we looked back at your Dragon box prompts, which were not as high quality as they could be. Ergo, we discussed what are the components of successful thesis statements, body paragraphs, and concluding statements to make your next box prompts much more successful. Very appropriate timing because you have 2 box prompts (Petrarch/Donne and Songs/Sonnets) that will be due Thursday. I have all those box prompt copies, so these are available if you happened to be out of class today.
2: In addition to Petrarch and Donne, we close read "Thou Blind Man's Mark," which revealed a plethora of literary elements to analyze for an essay: structure, anaphora, repetition, sonnet structure, apostrophe, paradox, and the pervasive accusatory, cacophonous (and a lot of other adjectives) alliteration. To conclude the hour, we began the analysis of the rangefinders, which will be completed next time around. So far, we have realized that a poet who rhymes in the sixteenth century did so to be popular, which I hope none of you try to replicate in your future analyses.
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