1. Quiz:
a. What was the most memorable poem you read and why? (full points)
b. Why did you give up trying to read the poems? Did you try to read them out loud? (some points)
c. Why didn't you do the reading? (pride)
2. Rhyme Scheme (basic)
ambiguity-: (1) a statement which
has two or more possible meanings; (2) a statement whose meaning is
unclear. Depending on the circumstances, ambiguity can be negative,
leading to confusion or even disaster (the ambiguous wording of a
general's note led to the deadly charge of the Light Brigade in the
Crimean War). On the other hand, writers often use it to achieve
special effects, for instance, to reflect the complexity of an issue or
to indicate the difficulty, perhaps the impossibility, of determining
truth.
The title of the country song "Heaven's
Just a Sin Away" is deliberately ambiguous; at a religious level, it
means that committing a sin keeps us out of heaven, but at a physical
level, it means that committing a sin (sex) will bring heaven
(pleasure). Many of Hamlet's statements to the King, to Rosenkrantz and
Guildenstern, and to other characters are deliberately ambiguous, to
hide his real purpose from them.
Alliteration: the repetition of the
same sound at the beginning of a word, such as the repetition of b
sounds in Keats's "beaded bubbles winking at the brim"
("Ode to a Nightingale") or Coleridge's "Five miles meandering
in a mazy motion ("Kubla Khan"). A common use for
alliteration is emphasis. It occurs in everyday speech in such phrases
as "tittle-tattle," "bag and baggage," "bed and board," "primrose
path," and "through thick and thin" and in sayings like "look before
you leap."
Some literary critics call the
repetition
of any sounds alliteration. However, there are specialized
terms for other sound-repetitions. Consonance repeats
consonants, but not the vowels, as in horror-hearer.
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, please-niece-ski-tree.
3. McKay - biography
4. poem(s)
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