All Regents essays need to be handed in by friday.
Started a poetry unit today with the intro and discussion of some vocabulary;:
Poetry: the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
Prosody: study of poetic meters and writing verse; the particular system of verse in a poem.
Prose: the ordinary form of spoken or written language
Introduced "La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats. Discussed the first two stanzas:
O WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
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.
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English Lit
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