Week 31: Wednesday, 3/16/16

* Open

• Note: Your last day to turn in your FD of Your Annotations is Next Tuesday, Due to the Senior Trip

* Continue Reading Perrine's Ch. 7, Poetry (pg. 829 and following)

• Focus on the Following (those not hearing things in class):
• "Much Madness is Divinest Sense"
• "The Chimney Sweeper"
• "The Unknown Citizen"
• "Departmental" 
• Specifically on these last two, how do they compare?  

With our in-class essays, remember that your work is analysis.

In Writing about Literature the authors tell us that

an analysis (literally a "breaking up" or separation of something into its constituent parts)--instead of trying to examine all parts of the work in relation to the whole--selects for examination just some elements or parts that relate to the whole. Clearly, an analysis is a better approach to longer works and to prose works than is an explication. A literary work may be usefully approached through almost any of its different elements--point of view, characterization, plot, setting, symbolism, structure, and the like--so long as you relate this element to the central meaning or the whole. 

Also in Writing about Literature the authors discusses comparison/contrast papers.

The comparison and contrast of two stories may be an illuminating exercise, because the similarities highlight the differences, or vice versa, and thus lead to a better understanding not only of both pieces but of literary processes in general. The works selected may be similar in plot but different in theme, similar in subject but different in tone, similar in theme but different in literary value, or, conversely, different in plot but similar in theme, different in subject but similar in tone, and so on. In writing such a paper, it is usually best to decide first whether the similarities or the differences are more significant, begin with a brief summary of the less significant, and then concentrate on the more significant. 

* Work On Annotations or Your Poem

* Per. 1 Annotations

HW:

• Poem of Remembrance of At Least Five Lines Due Tomorrow, Printed or Handwritten 
• Finish Reading Through Ch. 7