Can you list three effective leaders in our society?

GM CEO Mary Barra

The British are proud of…• Their long and rich history• Military prowess• “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire”• Manners/Etiquette• Industrial leadership• Spreading their culture. Colonization of the Dark

Continent (Africa) 1800s, Afghanistan/Iraq (2000s)

• Their proud history of producing poetry and literature.

“London, 1802” by William Wordsworth

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,Have forfeited their ancient English dowerOf inward happiness. We are selfish men;Oh! raise us up, return to us again;And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,So didst thou travel on life's common way,In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heartThe lowliest duties on herself did lay.

Frederick Douglass

• City slave to country slave in Maryland• Reading• Stowaway escape

• William Lloyd Garrison. The Libertor• Lincoln and black regiments in Civil War• After Reconstruction, the South returns to a near pre

Civil war state.

“Douglass” by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Ah, Douglass, we have fall'n on evil days, Such days as thou, not even thou didst know, When thee, the eyes of that harsh long ago Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways, And all the country heard thee with amaze. Not ended then, the passionate ebb and flow, The awful tide that battled to and fro; We ride amid a tempest of dispraise.

Now, when the waves of swift dissension swarm, And Honour, the strong pilot, lieth stark, Oh, for thy voice high-sounding o'er the storm, For thy strong arm to guide the shivering bark, The blast-defying power of thy form, To give us comfort through the lonely dark.

Poetic Elements to locate in “Douglass”• Define: salient, tempest, dissension, stark,

bark• What makes this poem an Apostrophe?• Personification• Shift location• Hyperbole (Exaggeration for effect)• Explain the metaphor that runs through the

second stanza. What language (words) suggest the metaphor?

• What does the “lonely dark” symbolize?• Identify the tone. Two adjectives (Use your

list.)