We started with a look at Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" paying special attention to the sound. There is a copy of the poem on studywiz. We also watched this short video to discuss if whether or not Frost would agree with the "reading" of his poem.
We then discussed the main topics of most poets - the universal themes that most poems tend to discuss:
Nature (beauty of...man's relationship to...)
Human Nature
Relationships (love, sex, family)
Time (death, seasons, cycle of life)
Sex
Beauty
Faith/Spirituality
Finally we learned about TPCASTT (see handout on studywiz) and applied it to a blind reading of John Donne's "Broken Heart".
Whew.
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