http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfok7ZD92_k&feature=related

Video on Wordsworth’s life

Pg. 27- “Lucy Gray, or Solitude”

Written in 1799Latin “lux” means Light.

Therefore, Lucy Gray means light dark; light gone out

Vocabulary

Wretched-

Deeply distressed

wanton-

Playful; careless

Speaker -

Admirer of Lucy

Setting-

moor – an open marsh land

Characters-

Mother- distracted, concerned

Father-

distracted, trusting, hardworking, harsh

Lucy-

eager to please, compliant, playful, innocent, carefree, alone but not lonely

Theme-

splendor and innocence of childhood “ignorance is bliss”

nature gives and takes life

Irony-

Lucy is connected to nature, yet nature is what takes her away

Literary Elements/Language Usage-

Appositive-

direct address. Line 15 “And take a lantern, Child, to light”

Foreshadowing-

Lines 11 and 12 “But the sweet face of Lucy Gray/Will never more be seen”

Flashback-

the entire middle of the poem is written in the day Lucy disappeared. The intro and conclusion are after-the-fact.

“My Heart Leaps Up”

Video reading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr-4fqrdYSw&feature=fvwrel

References

nature- line 2- “rainbow in the sky”

child- line 7- “Child is father of the man”- childhood is the most important stage of a man’s life

Themes

Splendor of childhood

Power of human mind- “I could wish my days to be”

William Blake

Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_geYnyuOk

“The Clod and the Pebble”

Written in 1794

From Songs of Experience

Speaker

Clod= piece of dirt; stupid person; idiot

Pebble=“realist” pessimist

Personification

Love is two-faced

Selfless, easy

Selfish, suffocating

Clay and pebble talking

“A Poison Tree”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-x87gWZKd8

Allusion

Apple= Adam and Eve; sin

Symbolism

Apple= fruit of deceit

Theme

Suppression of anger leads to more anger

John Keats

Video about Keats and “To Autumn”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR-FSHc3qyY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKhX_DP1knU&feature=related

Appeals to the senses:

Ripe fruit

Sweet kernel

Warm days

Clammy cells

Hair soft-lifted

Fume of poppies

Watching the last oozing hours

Songs of Spring

Stubble-plains

Wailful choir

Light wind

Lambs loud bleat

Hedge-cricket sing

Red-breast whistle

Poem + Images

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHAE-jF4YNE&feature=related

Keats: “To Autumn”

As autumn is dying, so is Keats

Message/Theme: circle of life

Keats: “When I Have Fears”

Sonnet- 14 line poem usually using iambic pentameter (10 syllables….one unstressed, followed by a stressed syllable)

When I have fears that I may cease to be

Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain

Figurative language

Simile

Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain

Personification

Night’s starred face; magic hand of chance

Fears

Death

Fears that I may cease to be

Failure

Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain/To love and fame to nothingness do sink

Dying alone

Cloudy symbols of high romance/that I may never live to trace/ I stand alone

Images

Space

Night sky

Fairies

Edgar Allan Poe: “To Helen”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jdZ1NUjWg

“To Helen”

Comparisons:

Sailing ship

Tidal wave

Hyacinth

Statue

Psyche- Greek goddess of soul