Homework This Weekend (Due Nov. 2nd)

Study your VOCAB! (see link on the right) -- no definitions or sentences, but understand how to apply these terms to real poems

Read and annotate 3 of the modern/contemporary poems in your packet.


Some reminders about sonnets:

Italian:

14 lines

Octave/Sestet (volta)

Rhyme: abbaabba/cdecde or cdccdc

NO RHYMING COUPLET

Early English Sonnet

14 lines

Octave/Sestet (volta)

Rhyme: abbaabba/cddc ee

RHYMING COUPLET

Shakespearean Sonnet

14 lines

Octave/Sestet (volta)

Rhyme: abab cdcd efef gg

RHYMING COUPLET & NEW RHYME SCHEME

Study Poetry Vocab (Quiz Monday)

Here are the key terms for this week:

Scansion

Meter

Qualitative Meter

Metric foot

dimeter

trimeter

tetrameter

pentameter

caesura

end-stopped

enjambed

iamb

trochee

spondee


You DO NOT need definitions and sentences this week. Just study these terms and know how to apply them to a poem.

Tiresias & Oedipus (Background)

Hello!

Today you all had to listen to the very dry, very boring back stories of Tiresias and Oedipus. Just kidding! The Greeks were crazy and (let's face it) I'm a brilliant story teller.

HERE is a copy of the PPT I gave. There were a lot of important terms today. I really want you to understand:

• Foresight (Tiresias' gift)
• Sophocles' dates
• Oracle at Delphi
• Sybil
• 3 inscriptions at Delphi
• Oedipus' parents (Laius & Jacosta)
• transgression
• taboo