class, we did Death the Leveller and here are model questions.
please rmb to work hard for your upcoming test. if you have any queries, pls arrange a consultation. i would also like to have a supplementary lesson on tues, 12/2.
shd only be an hour long. we'll be covering more on metaphors and similies in preparation for the cts and a quick recap on other topics.
pls do your meteor of words. make sure everything is complete! and file your ws.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/29/437126/Copy%20of%20Sec%202%20Lit%20CT1.doc
oh yes! for the last supplementary lesson, we went through Mirror and Child by Sylvia Plath. it's really interesting. so please check with your friends. we also did Thomas Hardy's 'Ah, are you digging on my grave?' ive got some spare copies. approach me if you need or dont be lazy and look for the poem online. the web is such a useful thing isnt it?
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
More Poems!
hello all. for those who turned up last tues, i hope the lesson was useful to you and that you've understood everything ive said.
if you have any queries, pass a list around to make an appointment with me.
THUS is strictly out as i will not be around. anything else should be pretty ok. and try not to have weekends for consultation ok?
i was surfing online for poems and i think The Tyger by William Blake is pretty good. try to understand this. it is for extra reading.
THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)
By William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
1794
after which, you can visit this site for more:
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~wblake/SIE/42/42bib.html
happy reading! i hope you have been studying diligently for your test.
if you have any queries, pass a list around to make an appointment with me.
THUS is strictly out as i will not be around. anything else should be pretty ok. and try not to have weekends for consultation ok?
i was surfing online for poems and i think The Tyger by William Blake is pretty good. try to understand this. it is for extra reading.
THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)
By William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
1794
after which, you can visit this site for more:
http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~wblake/SIE/42/42bib.html
happy reading! i hope you have been studying diligently for your test.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Supplementary lesson
hey all, lesson tmr 3 to 4pm 203 classroom. those who cannot make it, pls ask your friends, continue to work hard and seek me for consultation is needed.
all days are available except for this thurs (31st) and fri.
pls bring all relevant material for lesson tmr. we will go through your main text and a poem or too if we have time.
reminder test on mon. it's a half an hr test. so dont be late!
all days are available except for this thurs (31st) and fri.
pls bring all relevant material for lesson tmr. we will go through your main text and a poem or too if we have time.
reminder test on mon. it's a half an hr test. so dont be late!
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Poem analysis
this is I Cannot Live With you by Emily Dickinson.
it's a thorough analysis and i would strongly recommend you read this:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/1/24/1717600/I%20Cannot%20Live%20With%20You.doc
for the extra lesson, a poem that we will be going through is:
Fame is a fickle food (1659)
by Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.
Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the
Farmer's Corn –
Men eat of it and die.
________________________________________________
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but severe homesickness led her to return home after one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her house and visitors were scarce. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her thoughts and poetry. She was particularly stirred by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she met on a trip to Philadelphia. He left for the West Coast shortly after a visit to her home in 1860, and some critics believe his departure gave rise to the heartsick flow of verse from Dickinson in the years that followed. While it is certain that he was an important figure in her life, it is not certain that this was in the capacity of romantic love—she called him "my closest earthly friend." Other possibilities for the unrequited love in Dickinson’s poems include Otis P. Lord, a Massachusetts Supreme Court Judge, and Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican.
By the 1860s, Dickinson lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world, but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely. She spent a great deal of this time with her family. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was actively involved in state and national politics, serving in Congress for one term. Her brother Austin attended law school and became an attorney, but lived next door once he married Susan Gilbert (one of the speculated—albeit less persuasively—unrequited loves of Emily). Dickinson’s younger sister Lavinia also lived at home for her entire life in similar isolation. Lavinia and Austin were not only family, but intellectual companions during Dickinson’s lifetime.
Dickinson's poetry reflects her loneliness and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want, but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness. Her work was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town which encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity.
it's a thorough analysis and i would strongly recommend you read this:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/1/24/1717600/I%20Cannot%20Live%20With%20You.doc
for the extra lesson, a poem that we will be going through is:
Fame is a fickle food (1659)
by Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.
Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the
Farmer's Corn –
Men eat of it and die.
________________________________________________
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but severe homesickness led her to return home after one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her house and visitors were scarce. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her thoughts and poetry. She was particularly stirred by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she met on a trip to Philadelphia. He left for the West Coast shortly after a visit to her home in 1860, and some critics believe his departure gave rise to the heartsick flow of verse from Dickinson in the years that followed. While it is certain that he was an important figure in her life, it is not certain that this was in the capacity of romantic love—she called him "my closest earthly friend." Other possibilities for the unrequited love in Dickinson’s poems include Otis P. Lord, a Massachusetts Supreme Court Judge, and Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican.
By the 1860s, Dickinson lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world, but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely. She spent a great deal of this time with her family. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was actively involved in state and national politics, serving in Congress for one term. Her brother Austin attended law school and became an attorney, but lived next door once he married Susan Gilbert (one of the speculated—albeit less persuasively—unrequited loves of Emily). Dickinson’s younger sister Lavinia also lived at home for her entire life in similar isolation. Lavinia and Austin were not only family, but intellectual companions during Dickinson’s lifetime.
Dickinson's poetry reflects her loneliness and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want, but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness. Her work was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town which encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity.
24th jan lesson
i hope lesson today was great. we went through literary techniques. i have printed out a list for you guys and i can ensure you it is super useful. given the lack of time today, we will be holding another lesson next week, preferably tues. im fine with all days but fri's out. pls check with classchair. (classchair pls get back to me by sunday) yupp. we will go through a poem or 2. lesson will be after school and will not exceed an hour. after which you can consult me or anything you need clarification on.
i intend to set up links and upload files in this blog. for now, it will be info on poets, their style and how to analyze poems. my apologies that the blog has been pretty vacant for a while cuz i was busy marking a lot of work. yupp.
things to do:
i intend to set up links and upload files in this blog. for now, it will be info on poets, their style and how to analyze poems. my apologies that the blog has been pretty vacant for a while cuz i was busy marking a lot of work. yupp.
things to do:
- read The Garden and its analysis
- analyze The Cloud by Percy B Shelley (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-cloud/)
- Do homework- finish up your simile, death the leveller
- read literary techniques handout
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Under construction!
For my lit classes, i have compiled a short summary/ analysis on The Garden by Andrew Marvell. For a more comprehensive understanding, do visit the site below:
http://www.dijf.dk/exam-marvell.pdf
For more about James Shirley and his work (i.e. Death the Leveller), visit the below:
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/shirley/
Basically, i will not be printing a lot of resources for you. the onus will be on you to be hardworking enough =) Good luck in getting the elusive A!
Feel free to approach me if you have any queries.
http://www.dijf.dk/exam-marvell.pdf
For more about James Shirley and his work (i.e. Death the Leveller), visit the below:
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/shirley/
Basically, i will not be printing a lot of resources for you. the onus will be on you to be hardworking enough =) Good luck in getting the elusive A!
Feel free to approach me if you have any queries.
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