English Homework for Friday, Day 1, Jan 30

Class One: Mark up Sonnet #73 (Due Monday)

Class Two: Revised copy of your analysis due. Don't forget to double space.

Class Five: Read the poem "A Dream Deferred" several times. Then: Identify the speaker, identify the audience, identify the theme (message), describe the tone, describe the poet's would choice. Why do you think he uses the words he does?

Class Six: your rough draft of your analysis is due.

this is the poem that will be on the mid-term:

"Once by the Pacific" by Robert Frost

The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.