Topic: Shakespeare & Donne

Assigned Text: Sonnets

Shakespaere, "Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"

Donne, "Death, Be Not Proud"

Topic: Blank Verse Workshop

A ten-beat line of verse like Shakespeare wrote.

O lazy poets! Do not fill your lines
With really wasteful words that just fill space
Or words transpos'd, poetic to seem.
The truth is this: like Yoda do you sound.
Yet rhymeless soul-pack'd verse astounds the mind.
It echoes common speech you hear all day
Then surges up to soar with metaphor
And crashes, lashing out with sputt'ring rage.

Due Today: Ex 1-3c: Short Story Revision (20pts)

Extremely important -- a half-page submission note, in which you call my attention to the most significant changes you made since the draft I evaluated.

Assigned Text: Hácová, ''Love, Life and Death in Coleridge's Poem 'The Raven'''

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