Monday, October 3, 2011

Lit term fantasy, figure of speech

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To an Athlete Dying Young (927) ¶ 1: summary; ¶ 2 theme; for rest of page you can write about form, connections, poet skills, The written part of this assignment is only for those who need to make up a P180 assignment, but all need to be involved in the discussion.


To an Athlete Dying Young A.E. Housman
THE TIME you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come, 5
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay 10
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers 15
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out,
Runners whom renown outran
And the name died before the man. 20

So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head 25
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.




Canterbury Tales, we continued through the skipper, filling out the chart of characters. Some extra credit was announced today. I have some large cardboard pieces that one might earn up to 10 bonus points for doing the following:
Draw a picture of the character. Score them from one to five on a likeability scale.
Quote a specific line that tells us a lot about that person's character. Write three adjectives that point out what type of character they have. Neatness and skill will play some part in the scoring of this extra credit.