Friday, Nov. 22 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: “Because I could not stop…” discussion
• Anne Bradstreet –Notes 
•  “Upon the Burning of Our House” pg 118 and “Author to her Book”
• Previous slide
• Discussion of Bradstreet Poems 
• With group, discuss all.  Be prepared to share one non-repeated, insightful annotation for each category: meanings; Puritan characteristics; poetic devices/structure
• Walt Whitman
• “Song of Myself” pg 368
• How see Romantic/Transcend characteristics? Meanings (Literal/figurative)? Examples of his style? Poetic Devices/Structure?
• Romantics/Transcendentalists –emotion over reason, individual over society, common people over aristocracy, freedom over control, nature over human works.
• How does Whitman’s poem (sections 6, 31, 32) show this?
• Why does a child ask about the grass? How can childhood be connected to Romanticism?
• What could grass symbolize? (multiple things, quotes that show)
• What is he saying about death?
• How does Whitman’s work use parallel structure (repetition of grammatical structure)?