WEEK 8

Welcome to week 8! 

We're literally in the home stretch!

No, wait. That's wrong. We're not literally in the home stretch because we're not all on horses making the last turn before racing to the finish line. Literally doesn't work here. Some of you need to look back at your "Literally" sentences. If you lost points and want them back, you can revise them. Re-read the LBGB entry!

For the last two weeks you've been applying Romantic poetical elements to one long poem. This week you'll do the same with three shorter pieces of your choice (sort of). 

Coleridge and Wordsworth are considered the "first generation" Romantics. This week we'll take a look at the "second generation": Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats. They did their writing in the decades following the release of Coleridge and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and continued to work out the idea that poetry is "emotion recollected in tranquility." The poetry of these younger Romantics emphasized the same topics and ideals but in a bolder, more passionate way.


Here is your work for week 8:

1. Revise the RAM essay.

2. Choose THREE poems, one from each of the 2nd generation poets (you'll have to go digging), and in a well-developed and supported essay show how they share the Romantic traits of an emphasis on nature and the use of strong emotion. Consider also how the poets differ in their handling of these traits. 

a. Include the entire text of each poem at the end of your essay. (No worries about copyright laws; these are all public-domain because they're oooold).

b. Title formatting (short poems get "quotes" not italics.)

c. Use lots of quotes.

d. Organization -- you have some options. You could organize it by poem/poet or by trait. Either way, keep it balanced. If you give Byron two paragraphs (one for each trait), be sure to do the same for the other two. If you organize it the other way and write one long paragraph on the nature emphasis, don't write more than one long paragraph for strong emotion. Get it? So you can choose the organization - just cover everything (3 poets and the two Romantic traits) and keep it balanced.

d. 800 words minimum


Turn it in by Friday @ midnight. 


Have a wonderful week!