Homework for the week of 9/15/08

Monday: Work on your annotated bibliographies. Remember to use the MLA format.
Tuesday: Revise your essay or finish your essay if you weren't prepared last week. Use the writing tips on the blog and make sure you have an outline and a clear thesis statement first.
Wednesday: Prepare to present your metrical term to the rest of the class.
Thursday: Respond to Sestina by bringing in a piece of music that you would set this poem to as well as an illustration or picture that you think best represents the poem.
Friday: Prepare your outline and annotations for an in class poetry timed practice test on Monday.

Spiteful Letter

Shaking, my heart skips as I sit thinking
It is better to have had loved and lost
Not true! The sorrow leaves my heart sinking.
Love, like winter, my ground is full of frost.
Regretting what I did I seek to turn
Back. Please can you help me figure this out?
For intimacy does my cold heart yearn
As I stand here in ice, cold in my doubts
Knowing that you will miss my tender touch
Now desperate decisions are what you make
Now what comes next will give you a clear hunch
That what I have said so far is all fake
Cause roses are red and violates are blue
I never loved, but in fact hated you.

Finish the Sonnet

Tonight's homework was to finish the sonnet we started in class. Your job is to write the rhyming couplet. We will listen to all the new poems those two little lines will create tomorrow. Next week, we'll start to write an analysis of a poem together and we'll read some sonnets by famous authors. By the time we're done, you will be ready for a college class in poetry. Please, please take some time to look at some of the links at portaportal.com that I've set up for you. Especially poetrysoup.com where you should define your vocabulary words.