Sorry - I know it's not on the agenda, but I need to add in another two-week / catch-up post. I've decided last minute to do the men's retreat this weekend. So yes, we'll end up going a week longer.
Here's your work:
1. LBGB...
A. Read chapter 4.
B. Explain in your own words the 5 "AVOIDS" in the Style & Usage section.
C. Write a sentence using each term in the pair correctly:
possible / plausible
shall / will
who / whom
D. Write three sentences, each using the word literally in a corret way.
2. R.A.M. essay...
In week 6, I had you explore the Neoclassical and Romantic movements and begin tearing down Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It required a lot of small pieces of writing. This week will be different. You'll be writing one essay.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is considered, along with his literary partner William Wordsworth, the primary influence in Romantic Age poetry. Together, they proposed how poetry should be approached, and for the most part, the rest of the poetry world at the time began to follow their suggestions. And we have never gone back. We have retained the Romantic ideals, though they show up primarily now in our pop culture and the mass media "arts."
Their ideas were, in part, a reaction to the neoclassical period of the previous two centuries. If we look at how specific ideas shifted between the periods, we get a good sense of what to look for in Romantic poetry:
Neoclassical emphasis >>> Romantic emphasis...
tradition >>> experiment
society >>> individual
urban >>> rural
artificial >>> natural/nature loving
intellect/reason >>> imagination/emotion
public/objective >>> private/subjective
clear, logical >>> mysterious
scientific >>> supernatural
aristocratic >>> common
cultivated >>> primitive
constraint >>> spontaneity
formal diction >>> natural diction
(There's nothing special or "official" about these designations. You can use your own words to describe them; for example, instead of intellect to imagination, you could say the emphasis shifted from the head to the heart.)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner represents all of these shifts, some more than others. Your job this week will be to draft an essay that proves this by showing how Coleridge relies on FIVE of these Romantic traits. I'll start the list off by saying you HAVE TO deal with nature, emotion, and the supernatural. You can pick the other two.
Requirements / reminders for this draft...
DUE NEXT FRIDAY, 3/20, AT MIDNIGHT.
Have a blessed two weeks!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is considered, along with his literary partner William Wordsworth, the primary influence in Romantic Age poetry. Together, they proposed how poetry should be approached, and for the most part, the rest of the poetry world at the time began to follow their suggestions. And we have never gone back. We have retained the Romantic ideals, though they show up primarily now in our pop culture and the mass media "arts."
Their ideas were, in part, a reaction to the neoclassical period of the previous two centuries. If we look at how specific ideas shifted between the periods, we get a good sense of what to look for in Romantic poetry:
Neoclassical emphasis >>> Romantic emphasis...
tradition >>> experiment
society >>> individual
urban >>> rural
artificial >>> natural/nature loving
intellect/reason >>> imagination/emotion
public/objective >>> private/subjective
clear, logical >>> mysterious
scientific >>> supernatural
aristocratic >>> common
cultivated >>> primitive
constraint >>> spontaneity
formal diction >>> natural diction
(There's nothing special or "official" about these designations. You can use your own words to describe them; for example, instead of intellect to imagination, you could say the emphasis shifted from the head to the heart.)
Rime of the Ancient Mariner represents all of these shifts, some more than others. Your job this week will be to draft an essay that proves this by showing how Coleridge relies on FIVE of these Romantic traits. I'll start the list off by saying you HAVE TO deal with nature, emotion, and the supernatural. You can pick the other two.
Requirements / reminders for this draft...
- no plot summarizing
- author's full name and poem title in first P
- organization (intro / 5 body paragraphs / conclusion makes sense, right?)
- quote the text A LOT (more than any other literary form, poetry has to be quoted in analysis.)
- keep the quotes short (embedded quotes like Coleridge describes the specter woman as having "skin as white as leprosy" work well when writing about poetry)
- 800 words minimum
DUE NEXT FRIDAY, 3/20, AT MIDNIGHT.
Have a blessed two weeks!
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