Monday, March 19, 2012

Lit terms: chronological order, flashback


Time to work on packets



Outside reading;



Review 13, read 14 and 15, assign 16

At Peace- Nervo
Read the poem. Write one page on this poem and it will be worth 20 points. Start with a paragraph of summary. One sentence might do it for this summary  Start a new paragraph for theme. You may go in other directions if you would like and if you need more writing Connections with other poems or with your own life would be great topics of discussion. As always writing about author's skills is a good topic. Remember: New paragraphs depict new ideas

            At Peace- Amado Nervo

Very near my setting sun, I bless you, Life

because you  gave me neither unfilled hope

nor unfair work, nor undeserved pain

Because I see at the end of my rough way

that I was the architect of my own destiny

and if I extracted the sweetness or the bitterness of things

it was because I put the sweetness or the bitterness in them

when I planted rose bushes I always harvested roses

. . . Certainly, winter is going to follow my youth

But you didn’t tell me that May was eternal

I found without a doubt long my nights of pain

But you didn’t promise me only good nights

And in exchange I had some peaceful ones

I loved, I was loved, the sun caressed my face

Life, you owe me nothing, Life, we are at peace!

            Artifex vitae artifex sui   Amado Nervo

Muy cerca de mi ocaso, yo te bendigo, Vida,

porque nunca me diste ni esperanza fallida,

ni trabajos injustos, ni pena inmerecida;

Porque veo al final de mi rudo camino

que yo fui el arquitecto de mi propio destino;

que si extraje la mieles o la hiel de las cosas,

fue porque en ellas puse hiel o mieles sabrosas:

cuando planté rosales coseché siempre rosas.

. . . Cierto, a mis lozanías va a seguir el invierno:

¡mas tú no me dijiste que mayo fuese eterno!

Hallé sin duda largas las noches de mis penas;

mas no me prometiste tan sólo noches buenas;

y en cambio tuve algunas santamente serenas...

Amé, fui amado, el sol acarició mi faz.

¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!

Monday, 4-9, outside reading due (800 pages) Wednesday, 6-6, last academic day for seniors (NOTE CHANGE)