Wednesday, 1/15

* Open

• Grammar: is this a clause or phrase (and how do you know)? 
• Since you eat toothpaste

Robert Herrick

• Term: Carpe Diem
• Delight in Disorder
• To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
• When he would have his Verses Read 
• Read one more
• Write one paragraph on Herrick's style and sense (9.2). 

* Literary Criticism

• Please read Samuel Johnson's thoughts on John Milton and metaphysical poets at the Poetry Foundation. 
• Pages one through five concern Milton
• Page 1 begins Paradise Lost. 
• Pages 2-3 treat other writings that you have not read, but read those pages nonetheless. 
• Page 4 brings us Paradise Regained.
• Pages 4-5 treat blank verse and rhyme.
• Pages five through six concern metaphysical poets (Cowley and John Donne)
• Begin 9.3
•  In one paragraph, tell me about Johnson's thoughts on Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (How might the subject have been different than the fall and redemption of mankind?  How does it seem Paradise Regained was received?  Why is that?)

HW: Journal 9.3