Monday, 11/9/15

Agenda

Return To Longfellow
Look up information about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Write down 10 facts you find.

Next, analyze “The Poets” (see below).  Be specific!  Tell me what images you see, meaning of capitalization and punctuation, metaphors, allusions, etc. If you don’t finish this in class, it becomes your homework.

Homework
“The Poets” analysis due Tuesday, 11/10/15.

The Poets

O ye dead Poets, who are living still

Immortal in your verse, though life be fled,

And ye, O living Poets, who are dead

Though ye are living, if neglect can kill,

Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill,

With drops of anguish falling fast and red

From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head,

Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

Yes; for the gift and ministry of Song

Have something in them so divinely sweet,

It can assuage the bitterness of wrong;      (assuage: make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,  (plaudits: praise) (throng: large crowd of people)

But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.