ENGLISH IIJANUARY 26, 2012

Quick write: In one minute, write what comes to mind when you think of spring…

Ready?... GO!

REMINDERS Winter Formal voting… If you were absent Wednesday and

need your poetry packet stamped for “Those Winter Sundays” or “Piano” (due to ABSENCE) please drop your packet off on my desk now.

Bring poetry packet everyday.

STANDARDS

Literary Criticism 3.11 Evaluate the aesthetic qualities of style, including the impact of diction and figurative language on tone, mood, and theme, using the terminology of literary criticism. (Aesthetic approach)

“THE WIDOW’S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME”… REVISITED

Let’s read our next poem: “The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”.

First… What about that title??? After we read it twice, take five minutes to

annotate for: metaphors** symbols** irony** diction speaker tone mood theme **focus on finding these

terms

“The Widow’s Lament in Springtime”Sorrow is my own yardwhere the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but notwith the cold firethat closes round me this

year.Thirtyfive yearsI lived with my husband.The plumtree is white todaywith masses of flowers.Masses of flowersload the cherry branchesand color some bushesyellow and some redbut the grief in my heartis stronger than they

for though they were my joy

formerly, today I notice them

and turned away forgetting.

Today my son told methat in the meadows,at the edge of the heavy

woodsin the distance, he sawtrees of white flowers.I feel that I would liketo go thereand fall into those flowersand sink into the marsh

near them.-William Carlos Williams

HOMEWORK Finish the worksheet for “The

Widow’s Lament in Springtime” (due tomorrow)