Thursday, March 29, 2012
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Day 129: recuperate
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Today's questions
La Belle Dame sans Merci : page 961
1. What is the tone?
2. Name one literary device used. Write down the example used in the poem.
a. Example: Simile: “ Your love is like a rollercoaster.” Line 12
3. What is the poem about?
4. What is the title? What do you think it means?
5. Do you like this poem? Why?
The Waking page 987
1. What is the tone?
2. Name one literary device used. Write down the example used in the poem.
3. What is the poem about?
4. What is the title? What do you think it means?
5. Do you like this poem? Why?
Sonnet 18 page 990
1. What is the tone?
2. Name one literary device used. Write down the example used in the poem.
3. What is the poem about?
4. Who is this poem to? How do you know?
5. Do you like this poem? Why?
1. What is the tone?
2. Name one literary device used. Write down the example used in the poem.
a. Example: Simile: “ Your love is like a rollercoaster.” Line 12
3. What is the poem about?
4. What is the title? What do you think it means?
5. Do you like this poem? Why?
The Waking page 987
1. What is the tone?
2. Name one literary device used. Write down the example used in the poem.
3. What is the poem about?
4. What is the title? What do you think it means?
5. Do you like this poem? Why?
Sonnet 18 page 990
1. What is the tone?
2. Name one literary device used. Write down the example used in the poem.
3. What is the poem about?
4. Who is this poem to? How do you know?
5. Do you like this poem? Why?
Friday's Questions
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Review and Assess
1. Respond: What word or words would you use to describe the knight? Explain your answer.
2. Recall: What is the setting of hte poem? In what way does the season of this setting reinforce the meaning and the mood of the poem?
3. Describe the lady whom the knight meets. What is unusual about her?
4. Describe the knight's dream. Explain hjow the people in the knight's dream relate to his present condition.
5. Where is the lady when the knight awakens form his dream? Why i shte knight "Alone and plaely loitering"?
6. What does this poem suggest about things that seem attractive on the surface?
The Waking
Review and Assess
1. After reading the poem, do you feel optimistic or pessimistic? Explain.
2. Accordint to eh speaker, what dances "from ear to ear"? In what ways is the image contradictory? What is the emotion conveyed by this image?
3. Indentify two lines that address learning or thinking. What attitude toward knowledge do these lines convey? Explain.
4. What do you thingk the speaker means by the line " I wake to sleep, and takie my waking slow"? Why do you think so?
5. What advice aboutliving can you find in this poem? Do you think it is good advice? Why or why not?
Sonnet 18: Review and Assess
1. How might you feel if you were the subject of a sonnet like this one? Explain.
2. To what is the speaker comparing the subject of the poem? Do teh subject fare better or worse than a summer's day? Explain.
3. Who or waht is "the eye of heaven"? In your own words, restate lines 5 and 6.
4. What does the speker say "shall not fade"?
What makes the beloved immortabl?
5. Do you agree with teh statement made in the last two lines? Wha are some modern expressions of this sentiment?
Review and Assess
1. Respond: What word or words would you use to describe the knight? Explain your answer.
2. Recall: What is the setting of hte poem? In what way does the season of this setting reinforce the meaning and the mood of the poem?
3. Describe the lady whom the knight meets. What is unusual about her?
4. Describe the knight's dream. Explain hjow the people in the knight's dream relate to his present condition.
5. Where is the lady when the knight awakens form his dream? Why i shte knight "Alone and plaely loitering"?
6. What does this poem suggest about things that seem attractive on the surface?
The Waking
Review and Assess
1. After reading the poem, do you feel optimistic or pessimistic? Explain.
2. Accordint to eh speaker, what dances "from ear to ear"? In what ways is the image contradictory? What is the emotion conveyed by this image?
3. Indentify two lines that address learning or thinking. What attitude toward knowledge do these lines convey? Explain.
4. What do you thingk the speaker means by the line " I wake to sleep, and takie my waking slow"? Why do you think so?
5. What advice aboutliving can you find in this poem? Do you think it is good advice? Why or why not?
Sonnet 18: Review and Assess
1. How might you feel if you were the subject of a sonnet like this one? Explain.
2. To what is the speaker comparing the subject of the poem? Do teh subject fare better or worse than a summer's day? Explain.
3. Who or waht is "the eye of heaven"? In your own words, restate lines 5 and 6.
4. What does the speker say "shall not fade"?
What makes the beloved immortabl?
5. Do you agree with teh statement made in the last two lines? Wha are some modern expressions of this sentiment?
Poems
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Keats
O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
II.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms! 5
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.
III.
I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever dew, 10
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
IV.
I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light, 15
And her eyes were wild.
V.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look’d at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan. 20
VI.
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.
VII.
She found me roots of relish sweet, 25
And honey wild, and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
“I love thee true.”
VIII.
She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept, and sigh’d fill sore, 30
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
IX.
And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dream’d—Ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dream’d 35
On the cold hill’s side.
X.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!” 40
XI.
I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.
XII.
And this is why I sojourn here, 45
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
SONNET 18: William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
The Waking: Theodore Roethke
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
II.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms! 5
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.
III.
I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever dew, 10
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
IV.
I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light, 15
And her eyes were wild.
V.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look’d at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan. 20
VI.
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.
VII.
She found me roots of relish sweet, 25
And honey wild, and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
“I love thee true.”
VIII.
She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept, and sigh’d fill sore, 30
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
IX.
And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dream’d—Ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dream’d 35
On the cold hill’s side.
X.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!” 40
XI.
I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.
XII.
And this is why I sojourn here, 45
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
SONNET 18: William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
The Waking: Theodore Roethke
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Day 123: Lapnow Out
In blue Prentice Hall books:
“La Belle Dame sans Merci” page 961 – Questions page 962
“The Waking” page 986 – Questions page 987
“Sonnet 18” page 990 –Questions on the same page
“La Belle Dame sans Merci” page 961 – Questions page 962
“The Waking” page 986 – Questions page 987
“Sonnet 18” page 990 –Questions on the same page
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