Block of Cheese

Open 

• Grammar: Punctuate the following, please:
  "The world is too much with us late and soon
  Getting and spending we lay waste our powers"
• Recitations

* Sonnet

• John Milton (1608–1674)
• Paradise Lost: Book I
• On Shakespeare. 1630
• When I Consider How My Light Is Spent 
• Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont 

• William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
• "Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room"
• London, 1802

• G. K. Chesteron (1874--1936) "Sonnet to Stilton Cheese"
• Stilton, thou shouldst be living at this hour
  And so thou art. Nor losest grace thereby;
  England has need of thee, and so have I-
  She is a Fen. Far as the eye can scour,
  League after grassy league from Lincoln tower
  To Stilton in the fields, she is a Fen.
  Yet this high cheese, by choice of fenland men,
  Like a tall green volcano rose in power.
  Plain living and long drinking are no more,
  And pure religion reading ‘Household Words’,
  And sturdy manhood sitting still all day
  Shrink, like this cheese that crumbles to its core;
  While my digestion, like the House of Lords,
  The heaviest burdens on herself doth lay.

 * Finish Your Sonnet




* If time permits, we will head into our next poetry form.

• Villanelle: A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. These two refrain lines form the final couplet in the quatrain (The Poetry Foundation). 
• Read any two examples on your own, we will go over them tomorrow: 
• Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
  • The House on the Hill
  • Ask yourself: Why does the speaker repeat himself if "There is nothing more to say"?
   
• W. H. Auden (1907–1973) 
• "If I Could Tell You" 
• Who is the speaker?  Who is the speaker addressing?

• Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
• The Waking

• Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
• One Art 

• Ask yourself: What is the art?  Is it hard to master?  Has the speaker mastered it?  How do you know?

•  Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
• Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

Dylan Thomas...inspired Robert Zimmerman to recast himself as Bob Dylan