Author Archives: Nina Bannett
Group Work on McKay and Millay
Paper #1 assignment sheet
Hi everyone,
Below are the guidelines for paper #1 which is due on Wednesday, October 10 .
We’ll be working on this paper in stages:
–identifying which option you’ll be writing about and which poem
–handing in a tentative thesis statement
–spending one class session working on a draft
–revising the paper (an option for everyone who hands it in on time) once you’ve received a grade on it
Paper 1 poetry fall 2018Background on Edna St. Vincent Millay
Here’s some biographical information on Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) from the poets.org website:
Background on Claude McKay
Here is a link to background on the poet Claude McKay (1890-1948) from the website poets.org:
Features of a Sonnet
Here’s the handout from today on the features of a sonnet.
Features of a SonnetBackground on Shakespeare’s Sonnet Sequence
While the two Shakespearean sonnets we are studying can be analyzed individually, they are part of a 154 poem sequence which when read as a group, forms a narrative arc. For more about how the sequence works, you can look at this web page from Washington State University:
https://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/sonnets.html
poetry
Poetry
part of speech–noun
from Merriam Webster online dictionary
definition of poetry: “writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound , and rhythm”
Strategies for Reading Poetry
Denotation
the literal or primary definition of a word–the opposite of connotation