Class 2/Week 2

Class 2 Presentation: Link

Analysis & Critical Thinking: Link

HOMEWORK: 

Your homework is to write a response to the poem you were assigned and send it to ndris970@gmail.com or post it on your blog (and send me your blog address).

 Write about the poem you were assigned using the poetry terms we went over in class (see the attached PDF).  It is best to have a paragraph that focuses on one poetry term at a time. To talk about each term, use quotes from the poem.  For example, you might talk about imagery in Louise Gluck's "The School Children."

EX: The apples in "The School Children" are a prime image in the poem. When the children go to school the mothers' can no longer watch over them, so the apple is a way for the mother to still be present with the child. The apple is a charm or sacred object the children have to watch over them in the mothers' absence. However, the trees the apples come from are gray and unhealthy. The mothers are weak like the trees--they feel powerless leaving their children at the school. Also, the children drop away from the mothers when they grow up, the same way the apples fall off the tree. When the apples leave the tree, the tree can no longer nourish them. They are out of the trees' control. In the same way, the mothers' can no longer protect their children.

 So: just explain what you mean as much as you can. There is no over-explaining and there are no wrong answers as long as you can prove what you mean by linking it to the poem itself. We will continue to explore all aspects of this in more detail in Week 3.