英美诗歌第八课L8.pptVIP

Appreciation of British and American Poetry Lesson 8 Announcements EXTRA CREDIT Due Today! This assignment is not required. 4 points for completing the worksheet (on your own!) 6 points for completing a sonnet Please choose where you’d like to add points (write it somewhere I’ll see it): Quizzes points Journal Entries points Announcements Midterm Exam will be next week: April 28th All the poets and poems we have studied in class Historical Context Poetic Devices Vocabulary You are allowed to bring a half-sheet of notes to the exam. We will spend some time reviewing the second half of this class. Three things Returning your Quiz 3 Collecting Extra Credit Collecting Journal Entry #5 and #6 If you have notes in your journal you want to study from, you may cut out journals #5 and #6 to turn in. Poetic Device 7. Allusion Definition: An indirect reference to some literary or historical figure or event that might enrich an author or poet’s work. It requires the reader to make a connection between the poem and something outside it. Allusion (cont.) In Western poetry and literature, one very common type of illusion is a biblical illusion - an indirect reference to a person, story, or words from the Bible. Holy Sonnet VII At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go, All who the flood did, and fire shall o’erthrow All who war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes Shall behold God, and never taste death’s woe. But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space, For, if above all these, my sins abound, ‘Tis late to ask abundance of thy grace, When we are there; here on this lowly ground, Teach me how to repent; for that’s as good As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. John Milton 1608-1674 1. Milton is best know for his epic poem ____. a. Paradise Found b. Paradise c. Heaven Lost d. P